# Kate Plus 10 — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Kate Plus 10 by Edgar Wallace.

- [I: Eighty-Three Pearls on a String](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/i-eighty-three-pearls-on-a-string.md): Lord Flanborough summons Inspector Michael Pretherston to investigate the disappearance of Lady Moya Felton's pearl necklace. Michael quickly finds the pearls caught on a hook in her fur cloak, but during the visit he al
- [II: Mike Said Nothing—There Was Nothing to Say](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/ii-mike-said-nothing-there-was-nothing-to-say.md): Michael Pretherston interrogates Lord Flanborough about Kate Westhanger, who has been working as a secretary under the alias Miss Tenby. Michael reveals Kate's true identity as a master criminal and the brains behind a m
- [III: Other Eyes Watched Michael](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/iii-other-eyes-watched-michael.md): Michael Pretherston returns to Scotland Yard and receives a warning from Commissioner T. B. Smith about Kate's dangerous nature and the need to protect himself. Ignoring the advice, Michael conducts a solitary reconnaiss
- [IV: “The Ideal Criminal Is a Strategist”](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/iv-the-ideal-criminal-is-a-strategist.md): Kate Westhanger and the Colonel discuss the morality of their criminal life, Kate's philosophical doubts, and Gregori's impatience. Kate asserts her strategic role in the gang, while the Colonel and Gregori later plan a 
- [V: A Chorus Girl at Sebo’s](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/v-a-chorus-girl-at-sebo-s.md): At Sebo's Club, Reggie Boltover, a wealthy but naive young man, dines with Vera Flemming, a chorus girl he has become infatuated with. Their conversation reveals Reggie's incompetence in business and his fascination with
- [VI: Kate Came to the Flat](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/vi-kate-came-to-the-flat.md): Michael Pretherston reports the attempted stabbing of Kate Westhanger at Sebo's Club to Commissioner T. B. Smith, who assigns him to investigate. Michael deduces Kate's deeper scheme involving Reggie Boltover and confron
- [VII: The Princess Bacheffski—Beautifully Dressed](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/vii-the-princess-bacheffski-beautifully-dressed.md): Lord Flanborough hosts a dinner party where Moya insists on inviting Michael Pretherston over her father's objections. The dinner is dull, with Sir Ralph Sapson and other titled guests. Michael and Sir Ralph exchange bar
- [An Artist Makes an Exhibition of Himself](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/viii-an-artist-makes-an-exhibition-of-himself.md): Lady Moya Felton visits an art exhibition where she meets the artist, Alphonso Blaxton, who candidly admits his paintings are monstrosities. Meanwhile, Sir Ralph Sapson discusses the gold train logistics with the Princes
- [IX: The Shareholders and an Interruption](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/ix-the-shareholders-and-an-interruption.md): Michael Pretherston confronts Colonel Westhanger, accusing him of corrupting Kate and threatening to imprison him. After the police leave, Kate holds a shareholders' meeting with the Crime Street gang, distributing detai
- [X: Sir Ralph Lost a Princess and Found a Policeman](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/x-sir-ralph-lost-a-princess-and-found-a-policeman.md): Sir Ralph Sapson visits Michael Pretherston at Scotland Yard to discuss two troubling matters: the mysterious disappearance of the Princess Bacheffski, whom he met in Paris and who has now vanished from London, and his f
- [XI: Lady Moya Was Curiously Unlike Herself](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/xi-lady-moya-was-curiously-unlike-herself.md): Michael meets Kate in a park, where she cryptically hints at a major criminal scheme involving Lord Flanborough and Sir Ralph Sapson, whom she has arranged to be out of London. Meanwhile, Lady Moya goes on a sketching tr
- [XII: A Motor Car Was Met by a Special Train](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/xii-a-motor-car-was-met-by-a-special-train.md): Lady Moya Felton defies her father Lord Flanborough and breaks her engagement to Sir Ralph Sapson, declaring her love for the impoverished Alphonso Blaxton. Meanwhile, Michael Pretherston meets them at the station and su
- [XIV: The Remarkable Train That Did Strange Tricks](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/xiv-the-remarkable-train-that-did-strange-tricks.md): Michael Pretherston investigates the theft of a gold train, deducing that Kate (the Princess Bacheffski) orchestrated the heist. He interviews Sir Ralph Sapson and Reggie Boltover, then travels to Pinham Heights and Tolb
- [XV: As Sir Ralph Said, “Business Is Business”](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/xv-as-sir-ralph-said-business-is-business.md): Sir Ralph Sapson confronts Lord Flanborough over financial responsibility for the lost gold, demanding he share the loss. Lord Flanborough initially refuses, but after a mysterious delivery of gold ingots to his home, he
- [XVI: On the Unmorality of Professional Thieves](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/xvi-on-the-unmorality-of-professional-thieves.md): The Crime Street gang holds a shareholders' meeting in the abandoned Boltover's Cement Works. Kate argues passionately against the gang's plan to 'settle down' with their ill-gotten gains, defending her life of crime as 
- [XVII: The Independent Strategy of Señor Gregori](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/xvii-the-independent-strategy-of-se-or-gregori.md): Kate witnesses the gang's violent capture of Michael Pretherston, who is manacled and interrogated. Gregori and the Colonel propose a bribe for Michael to help them escape with the gold, but he refuses. The gang debates 
- [XVIII: The Colonel Was a Gentleman at the Last](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/xviii-the-colonel-was-a-gentleman-at-the-last.md): Kate diverts the gold-laden trucks to Lord Flanborough's, betraying the gang. Gregori proposes marriage, but she refuses. Michael refuses to join the gang despite threats. The Colonel defends Kate from Gregori and is sho
- [XIX: Michael Developed a Fondness for the Criminal Classes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/xix-michael-developed-a-fondness-for-the-criminal-classes.md): Michael, manacled and lying on the floor of the engine house, is tended by Kate, who confesses her love and reveals the gang's methods. Dr. Garon prepares to inject Michael with a fatal dope, but Detective-Sergeant Barr 
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/kate_plus_10_se/chapters/endnotes.md): The endnotes reference the case Rex v. Tolmini, a failed mail robbery due to a criminal's haste.

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