Kate Plus Ten

Kate Plus Ten is a 1917 British crime novel written by Edgar Wallace. Kate Plus Ten displays the police's attempts to capture eighteen-year-old criminal mastermind Kate Wasthanger, a colonel's niece and the strategist behind several increasingly successful swindles. These include stealing a complete and valuable railway goods train. Excerpt: «Each one is bigger than the last — but never once have we traced the crime to her door.»