''An admirably told tale of mystery and suspense''---Vanity Fair ... It all started with a mysterious telephone call that plunged Harriet Lacey into a suffocating atmosphere of terror. With no-one to help her, she was forced to turn to Flynn, the brilliant but bitter writer, whose past was already interwoven with hers in a tapestry of sudden death. It was an odd assortment of people who lived in the narrow brick house. Aloof, wary they hugged their secrets to themselves. But one of them was a prowler in the dark, bent on destroying Harriet and everything she held dear...