Dear Delinquent

Penelope Shawn is a very pretty, very appealing young girl who has a

most unusual profession; she's a burglar. Burglary is part of her family's

tradition. When David Warren fi nds her attempting to rob his

apartment, he decides it's up to him to reform her. Penelope, who fi nds

David most attractive, is more than willing to be reformed by him, but

his fi ancee, Helen Chandler, is not particularly enthusiastic about the

idea. Nor is Penelope's father, who is aghast at the way David has

shaken Penelope's faith in the ideals and traditions of her family.

Meanwhile, Penelope has hidden in David's apartment the jewels she

had stolen from his neighbors, and the police are on David's trail,

thinking he was an accomplice. His mother, Lady Warren, and his rich

uncle, Sir George, become involved. Sir George decides David should

marry Penelope, but her father, Henry Shawn, considers David not

good enough for the daughter of a long line of fi rst-class burglars.

Meantime the police are blundering in and out of David's apartment in

a hunt for the stolen jewels, which fi nally turn up in the police sergeant's

pocket put there by Penelope. After disposing of the jewels thus

satisfactorily, Penelope manages also to dispose of Helen, and by this

time she has convinced David that he really must marry her and see

that she continues in the path of an honest life.