Meet Mrs. Meade, a gentle but shrewd widow lady with keen insight into human nature and a knack for solving mysteries. Problems both quaint and dramatic find her in Sour Springs, a small town in Colorado at the turn of the twentieth century. Here in Volume One are her first three adventures, novelette-length mysteries previously published individually. In "The Silver Shawl," a young woman has disappeared from the boarding-house where she lives-was she kidnapped, or did she have a reason to flee? In "The Parting Glass," Mrs. Meade puzzles over the case of a respectable young man accused of drunkenly assaulting a woman. And in The "Oldest Flame," Mrs. Meade's visit with old friends turns to disaster with a house fire that may have been deliberately set. Quick and entertaining forays into mystery and times past, each story is just the perfect length to accompany a cup of tea or coffee for a cozy afternoon.