Crime writer sleuth Donald Langham is faced with the classic
locked-room conundrum in this engaging historical mystery
July, 1955. Donald Langham has interrupted his romantic break in rural
Suffolk with the delectable Maria Dupre to assist a fellow writer.
Alastair Endicott has requested Langham's help in discovering what's
happened to his father, Edward, who seems to have disappeared without
trace from inside his locked study.
Before he vanished, the elder Endicott had been researching a book on
the notorious Satanist Vivian Stafford. Could the proposed biography
have something to do with his disappearance? Does local resident
Stafford really possess supernatural powers, as some believe?
As Langham and Dupre question those around them, it becomes clear that
there have been strange goings-on in the sleepy village of Humble
Barton. But is the village really haunted - or does someone merely want
it to look that way? With a further shocking discovery, the case takes a
disturbing new twist.