In the early summer of 1923, the Honourable Phillip Petrie finally meets the woman of his dreams. Gloria Arbuckle, the daughter of an American millionaire industrialist, seems quite taken with him as well, and Phillip has begun the not-terribly-arduous task of wooing her and charming her father. However, things take an unexpected turn when the Arbuckles' car breaks down on the side of a quiet country road and, while Petrie tries to repair it, they are set upon by thugs who kidnap Gloria and Phillip. When Phillip is left bound hand and foot on the Dalrymple estate, he turns to his childhood friend, the formidable Daisy Dalrymple, for help. Because the kidnappers have warned Gloria's father not to go to the police at peril to Gloria's life, Daisy must rally her friends and her wits to solve a most perplexing crime if she is to rescue Gloria before it is too late.