Stranger at Golden Hill

Who was R. Sutherland? That was the question Melinda Marshall asked herself as she set forth one summer day, with San Fransisco as beautiful as ever around her, with her birthday party days away, and nothing to do but lunch with Aunt Julia's "delightful young friend" from England named R. Sutherland.

Melinda was stunned when R. Sutherland turned out to be, not the English girl she expected to meet, but tall, blue-eyed Robin Sutherland. The trouble was that odd and threatening things began to happen whenever Robin was on the scene. Melinda was mysteriously warned about him and it was clear that he was hiding something.

So, the question remaied: who was R. Sutherland?