Dangerous Inheritance by Veronica Black. Paperback Library New York, 1970, First thus. 140 pages. 63-457. Condition: Good+, Clean, solid copy with age toning, cover creases, small tears, reading wear.
From the stranger on the train to the boy who is sent to meet her, everyone Jenny Hargreaves speaks to warns her not to go to Crearty House, where she is to be the paid companion to Verity Morgan.
But neither old Mrs. Morgan, who fancies herself Mary, Queen of Scots, nor her son, Gareth, a brooding man who thrives on the fear of the townspeople, frightens her. Gareth orders her to leave; Jenny insists on staying. Nothing will make her go, she says--not even the screams in the night, or the cat whose throat has been slit open...
The Jenny finds a severed, bloody hand in her bed.
Maureen Peters was a historical novelist, under her own name and also Veronica Black, Catherine Darby, Belinda Gray, Levanah Lloyd, Judith Rothman, Elizabeth Law, Sharon Whitby.
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