They See in Darkness (Murder Room) - Softcover

White, Ethel Lina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471917231 ISBN 13: 9781471917233

Publisher: The Murder Room, 2015

Synopsis

Oldtown is a picturesque, historic place, with a square of characterful houses nestling at its centre, and is home to retired colonial masters and friendly locals. A wealthy, reclusive sisterhood lives there too, in a large mansion, Cloisters; a group known locally as the 'Black Nuns', who are said to have extraordinary healing powers.

But a killer is at work in Oldtown, and a series of murders has thrown the inhabitants into blind, unreasoning terror, a fear of darkness and of strange sounds - sounds such as the pitiless beat of following footsteps.

Suddenly the town is plunged into a miasma of fear and superstition ...

About this title

Book Description:

'Adept at laying one icy finger on the back of your neck' Spectator

About the Author:

Ethel Lina White was born in Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales. White started writing as a child, contributing essays and poems to children's papers. Later she began to write short stories, but it was some years before she embarked on books. Her first three, published between 1927 and 1930, were mainstream novels. Her first crime novel, published in 1931, was Put Out the Light, and she went on to be one of the best-known crime writers of the 1930s and 1940s in Britain and the US. Her novel The Wheel Spins (1936) was made into the acclaimed film, The Lady Vanishes, by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938. Ethel Lina White died in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Murder Room
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1471917231
• ISBN 13: 9781471917233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196