When Kate Cadell came from her father's modest vicarage to her grandfather's house in Victoria Square, she never dreamed she would bring to the family a terrifying reminder. Kate was the image of her great-grandmother Rosette, one of the greatest actresses of her day, and a notorious femme fatale.
The inhabitants of this huge and terrifying mansion were a strange and hostile group, desperately trying to escape the ancient curse of Julius Cadell, whose ghost was said to be restlessly seeking to avenge a wrong done him - by Rosette, his perfidious wife!
Inspector Septimus Finch finds himself the captive audience of a ghost in a haunted theatre, where the theme of the play is murder.
When Kate Cadell came from her father's modest vicarage to her grandfather's house in Victoria Square, she never dreamed she would bring to the family a terrifying reminder. Kate was the image of her great-grandmother Rosette, one of the greatest actresses of her day, and a notorious femme fatale.
The inhabitants of this huge and terrifying mansion were a strange and hostile group, desperately trying to escape the ancient curse of Julius Cadell, whose ghost was said to be restlessly seeking to avenge a wrong done him - by Rosette, his perfidious wife!
Inspector Septimus Finch finds himself the captive audience of a ghost in a haunted theatre, where the theme of the play is murder.