The room was black and the light switch didn't work. I moved towards the table. I could feel theeyes boring into me. Where was Pat? Or was I too late? Then I saw the dark shape between me and the door. I was trapped. I lost my head and ran. Suddenly there was a flash of light the roar of a gun .' Jean and Pat Abbott, famous detective team, were weekend guests at Stephen Heywards' country house - a house seething with menace and intrigue. Chief troublemaker was Lorna Erickson, whose stunning beauty and feline malice made her unanimaously feared and hated. Then murder struck at a harmless servant girl, and Jean Abbott, who had by chance oveerheard a strange conversation, became the next target of a desperate killer.