In very good condition: dust jacket, cover, and pages have light wear; pages are unmarked; binding is tight.
Margaret Collier, a young, attractive, recently widowed American woman, stands at her hotel window looking out over London on a sultry night and is inadvertently caught up in the intricacies of a murder that involved a distinguished-looking, coldly remote Englishman, Sir Hugh Vane.
Giving way reluctantly to a compulsive urge to discover the facts of the murder, she seeks out Sir Hugh at at his ancestral estate, Monks' Court, deep in the Shropshire countryside, and once the site of an ancient monastery. The spell cast by the enigmatic Sir Hugh and by his beautiful and fateful house are Margaret's undoing. She is enmeshed in events that take a terrifying turn when the threat of a second murder arises. This time, it is her own life that is menaced.
