After losing her copywriting job, young Gwynne Dacres moves into the seedy and boarding house run by Mrs. Garr. A chain of chilling events leads to the gruesome discovery of a mutilated body in the basement kitchen, dead of unknown circumstances. Was it an accident or murder? Under the red-black brick facade of the old house on Trent Street, Gwynne uncovers a myriad of secrets, blackmail, corruption, and clues of a wicked past. As she closes in on the truth, the cold, pale hands of death reach for Gwynne in the night... A reissue of the classic mystery by the 'mistress of mystery'.
