Death-line

Alone in the kitchen, Richard Templeton's housekeeper experienced an unexpected sense of foreboding, and the odd feeling that she had suddenly become an unwilling onlooker in the midst of some unfolding drama. It was a feeling Helen Morley was to experience over and again as she found herself beset by disturbing questions.What mystery lay behind her employer's latest book? Why had Donald Craig, his secretary, disappeared without explanation ? Why should she sense an air of fear in Carla Templeton's unpredictable behaviour? And, for what reason did the doctor query her own future at Shadow House?They were questions quickly forgotten in a week crowned by unexpected death. But ones which, several months later, Helen Morley had good cause to remember.