Outrageous Fortune — Patricia Wentworth

Was Jim Randal alive or dead? Caroline Leigh knew he was on the coast steamer to Scotland that capsized in the storm and that some man, muttering the name Jim Randal or "Jimmy Riddell," had been saved. That news on the radio had sent Carolne rushing to the country hospital where she found a chilling mystery. -- A strange woman had already claimed "Jimmy Riddell" as her husband and had taken him away. But a torn scrap of letter made Caroline suspect that the survivor was her Jim. And as she began her desperate search to find him, the picturesque villages in this cozy corner of England seemed to turn sinister, for in one of them was Jim -- and a crime murder and ruthless hearts.