The sixth Merrily Watkins mystery finds her daughter embarking on a
first job, and running into a dark local legend
A crumbling hotel on the border of England and Wales, asuggestion of
inherited evil, a strange love affair, and the long-disputed origins of
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles." Fascinating
for young Jane Watkins, flushed by the freedom of her first weekend job.
But the sinister side becomes increasingly apparent to her mother,
Merrily, diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Then come memories of a
child-killer, blood in the fresh snow."