An old-fashioned bus with two elderly passengers visible through its windows parks in a London street and its driver covertly enters an adjacent building with a gun to meet with a moneylender.

On the same day, Annabelle, a seventeen-year-old woman who traveled to London to live with a relative she has never met before, asks an old friend, Richard, to meet her so he will be aware of where she is staying, just in case.

It's attached to a museum of oddities, and the officer is suddenly struck by a memory that may have bearing on the case of the missing moneylender and the two old people on the bus.

Meanwhile, attorney Matthew Phillipson arrives to consult with Polly, who had caught Gerry altering a check she wrote to him and is worried he's showing signs of criminality.

Phillipson is startled when he learns that Polly had hoped she could arrange for Gerry to marry her niece, though she admits it won't work after all because the girl is too young.

Charlie Luke and Campion meet with the police officer who tells them that there were two wax figures in the museum of oddities that fit the description of the old couple on the bus.

As they leave, Campion asks about shop nearby that sells the kind of gloves left at the scene of another murder, startling Polly.

As the police surround the house, Gerry goes into the museum, planning to burn his coat, which has traces of blood on it, but finds Annabelle and Richard who have been hiding there.

Though the police have enough evidence to see Gerry hanged for his crimes, Luke tells a colleague Polly will forgive him because her love for him is "like nuclear energy.

"[2] Biographer Julia Jones reports that the critical reception of Hide My Eyes and subsequent novels was mixed compared to the author's earlier output.