Forget The Girl on the Train - meet the woman who watches from her window, and finds herself caught up in murder... Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club 'Watching, fascinated and horrified, she saw thin fingers creep around the edge of the black curtain. Someone from inside was tugging to loosen it . . .' Miss Janet Martin, a 74-year-old spinster of small means and delicate health, finds her chief interest in observing people passing by while sitting at the window of her lone room in Kensington. One day, her attention is caught by a little golden-haired girl called Pamela, whom subsequently she gets to know. It is obvious this child comes from a comfortable home, where she appears to be in the care of a guardian and a charming young governess named Terry. A little later, Miss Martin is taken ill, removed to hospital and finally sent to an Old Ladies' Home outside London. Here she is very lonely, but one day, again watching from the window, she sees a group of children from the Destitute Children's Orphanage coming down the street, and to her amazement and horror she recognizes Pamela. When she tries to make inquiries, however, she is repulsed on all sides and assured that she must be mistaken. Profoundly dissatisfied with this explanation, the old lady persists in her efforts despite obstacles from the matrons and her unsympathetic niece, Doreen Blake. Eventually, she decides to take a risk and contacts private investigator Arthur Crook to explain her predicament. Crook, recognizing the unfamiliar territory, conducts some investigations and eventually unearths a most exciting plot involving murder, attempted murder, fraud and abduction . . .