This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Broadmoor's most brilliant inmate, John Flack—"Crazy John"—spends his confinement compiling a private encyclopedia of crime, a chilling record of robberies, escapes, and murder that suggests his revenge is merely delayed. Far from prison, Margaret Belman seeks a fresh start at the remote Larmes Keep, only to find herself drawn into an eerie household run by the eccentric Mr. Daver, whose private boarding establishment is filled with carefully chosen, unsettling guests and hidden motives. What begins as an unusual secretarial interview soon turns ominous. Margaret is followed by the powerful underworld figure George Ravini, then rescued by the mild, formidable detective J. G. Reeder, who reveals that Flack has escaped and may already be in London. Sent away for her own safety, Margaret instead lands at the center of a growing web of suspicion, where a sobbing housekeeper, a mysterious intruder, a hidden door mechanism, and the presence of Olga Crewe all point to a criminal design closing in. In this grimly elegant thriller, a remote country house becomes the stage for deception, menace, and Reeder's quiet battle against a master criminal.
