East and west (Talbot Mundy)

This is the fourth book of the succesful mystery series Madame Storey, aby canadian-american author Hulbert Footner. Almost unknown today, Footner was a Candadian journalist and author of many adventure and mystery novels. In „The Doctor Who Held Hands” Madame Storey is asked to help in stopping the pseudo-psychological activities of a doctor who has set himself up as a „psycho-synthetist”, seemingly to help his patients, but in fact blackmailing them... Storey is almost imprisoned in her movements from the very start giving the story a bit of claustrophobic feel until little aby little she finds a way to break out of the surveillance. The story has a lot of action and a neat twist in the final paragraph.