About This Book
Her own face seen in a window led Alice on a terrifying search. Was it a bizarre evil trickâ€"or a prelude to madness?
The coach route took young Alice Crowley, still mourning her wealthy father's death, into gaslit Cheapside, the bawdiest of London districts --- and into a moment of sheer terror. For leering down at her from a shadowed window was a half-dressed slattern with HER FACE!
It was a shock that Alice could not forget, a face that haunted her throughout the ensuing strange events at the Crowley mansion, so different in its opulence from that sinister slum. The horrors of her new left at home --- the frighteningly arrogant behavior of her brother Philip, the eerie destruction of her father's prized possession, and then a dreadful murder: all seemed related to that terrifying face she'd seen at the window! And yet, was it so? Alice *had* to find out. There was one man who might help her in her search, but could she trust him? Or was Allan Kent himself luring her to madness?
The coach route took young Alice Crowley, still mourning her wealthy father's death, into gaslit Cheapside, the bawdiest of London districts --- and into a moment of sheer terror. For leering down at her from a shadowed window was a half-dressed slattern with HER FACE!
It was a shock that Alice could not forget, a face that haunted her throughout the ensuing strange events at the Crowley mansion, so different in its opulence from that sinister slum. The horrors of her new left at home --- the frighteningly arrogant behavior of her brother Philip, the eerie destruction of her father's prized possession, and then a dreadful murder: all seemed related to that terrifying face she'd seen at the window! And yet, was it so? Alice *had* to find out. There was one man who might help her in her search, but could she trust him? Or was Allan Kent himself luring her to madness?