Publisher's Synopsis
July, 1894. When Maximilian Paget inherits Mayfield Court, he and his niece Catherine find it to be half-ruined and haunted by the wraith of a murdered child. Catherine discovers a child's skeleton, bringing rural Detective Inspector Jackson and his bibulous but shrewd sergeant, Herbert Bottomley, to investigate. Once returned to London, neither uncle nor niece can shake off the baleful influence of Mayfield. And when Uncle Max is murdered by a deranged killer who, Jackson discovers, has left a trail of corpses in an attempt to secure a hidden fortune, Catherine herself faces imminent death, and a monstrous betrayal...
