The Governess

The mansion housed a murder…No. 3 Northumberland Gardens was in every way the picture of Victorian respectability, William Thackerton made sure of that: he was a tyrannical man who ruled his home with an iron w ill…until the warm July night when he retired to the library for a cigar and brandy…and was found brutally murdered in hi s easy chair.
Scotland Yard’s chief suspect is the family governess, Miss Harriet Unwin, who had both the means and opportunity, plus a blood-stained sleeve. Harriet Unwin knows that she is innocent-and that the only to prove it is to unmask the real killer… or face the gallows. But the first thing her investigation uncovers is another corpse…