Old bones speak from the grave

When Kate Shackleton disembarks at Saltaire station, she has no idea what to expect. A stranger, Ronnie Creswell, has written to say that he has urgent information about the past that will interest her, and he persuades her to make the journey to Milner Field, the grand house that is said to be cursed. But moments after Kate arrives, a messenger brings devastating news to Ronnie’s parents: he has been found drowned in the reservoir.

Ronnie’s father suspects that this was no accident, and the post-mortem proves him right. Terrified and distraught, Mrs. Creswell refuses to stay at the Lodge a moment longer. But events take an even more shocking turn when 10-year-old Nancy Creswell, eyes and ears for her blind Uncle Nick, goes missing.

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“In the tradition of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, Kate is an unflappable sleuth.”—New York Journal of Books

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