Kill Joy

There wasn't any reason Maggie could see for leaving the comfortable, big town house in the middle of night, and traveling over bumpy roads until morning. Presumably Miss Dolly, romantic and sad-eyed Miss Dolly, knew what she was doing. But when their destination came in sight, Maggie was more certain than ever that the whole thing was a mistake. A ramshackle and rather dirty cottage by a lake--that is what they had taken such pains and insisted on such secrecy to reach. There were only two young men in it, of whom Maggie instantly disapproved, and no one else around--until the lawyer appeared. But then, he was only there so short a time....

Mrs. Holding's talent for creating endearing and completely credible heroines, who manage to involve themselves in really sinister situations, has never been more admirably demonstrated than it is here.