Product Description: When flatmates Bridget and Diane decide to look for another tenant, Norah applies for the room. She says she is a battered wife and has run away from home. Gradually, however, her lies are revealed. She is not a battered wife but the mother of a mentally ill son and wife of a psychiatrist...read more

Product Description: Louise Henderson is trapped in a nightmare: the baby cries almost all night, every night, and the other children must be gotten off to school . . . Louise is so tired that she is afraid she is becoming psychotic; why does she have this feeling of apprehension, almost of terror? Is it connected with the lodger, a respectable school teacher? What is happening in the Henderson household? This novel, which won an Edgar in 1957, is one to be read in a single sitting...read more

Arnold Walter's job as caretaker and tour guide at a Tudor mansion becomes complicated by the arrival of his wayward daughter, Flora, and by the possible murder of Sir Henry Penrose, a senile octogenarian historian given to spontaneous bizarre behavior.

Product Description: This is an engrossing and chilling read. A gripping new novel from that mistress of suspense, Celia Fremlin. Clare Wakefield is more dismayed than elated when she learns of her husband's escape from Middle Eastern kidnappers. Dismay is to turn to fear, though, when Clare begins to suspect that Edwin has made up the whole kidnapping story for publicity...read more

Product Description: Alice Saunders, striking out on her own following the traumatic break-up of her marriage, rents an attic room in a London boarding house. The house contains a curious assortment of people, including the neurotic Mary, who resents Alice's occupation of the attic, and is trying to conceal a murder...read more

When Adrian's mistress, Rita, moves in with him, she is the victim of mysterious accidents possibly linked to Adrian's 10-year-old daughter

When her young daughter becomes engaged to an over-thirty accountant, Clare Erskine is determined to ascertain the truth about his clouded past

Rosamund dreams that she killed her neighbor, Lindy, and then is shocked to discover that Lindy has actually disappeared

Mystery and suspense short stories depict ordinary people's normal home life disrupted by death, murder, and violence