There are strange goings-on at St. Asprey's, an expensive boys' preparatory school: footsteps in passages at night...strange lights... rabbits with battered skulls... a face in the window... a puppy found in a pool of blood... and even worse to come. In a tense, chilling atmosphere Carolus Deene has some spine-tingling experiences before he solves the mystery of these curious and sinister events.