14, 1942.Mr. Martin, a man of exemplary habits, planned to murder Mrs. Barrows, the special adviser to the president of his firm. The woman had disrupted the system; caused people to be fired, and generally gotten the place into a state of confusion. His carefully laid plan to murder her didn't work out, but by visiting her apartment and behaving himself in an "unseemly" manner, as she reported to the president, he managed to get her out of the firm and possibly into an insane asylum.

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    This is a story of strong women and weak men, of an abiding love that breaks taboos, and dare not be declared. It is a novel in which the family is spellbound by the secrets of its past.The Angela du Maurier name has appeared on the finest, most popular novels of gothic romance and menace of our time. In this novel, she has written a superb novel of love and fear, where explores this territory with candour and sensitivity all her own. From its innocent beginning to its violent and shocking close, her narrative grip is sure."A sure blend of romance, tragedy and macabre emotion. Written to the hilt in the best of the Wuthering Heights school, TREVERYAN carves the theme of a great family suffering under the doom of a secret curse..." - Springfield Repbulican