Fatal Relations
(1955)(The Dead Don't Speak / Old Mrs. Ommanney Is Dead)
(A book in the Septimus Finch series)A novel by Margaret Erskine
After the death of her husband, beautiful Camilla Ommanney returned to Hammerford to start a new life - only to find herself followed constantly and wordlessly by John Marquis, the survivor of the accident that had killed her husband - a man to whom surgery had given a handsome, waxlike face, but who had completely lost his memory.
Was he really the John Marquis that Camilla had once loved? Or was he, as she had terrifying reasons to believe, her husband, come back from the grave to drive her insane?
A cryptic message brings Inspector Septimus Finch to Hammerford, to tear the mask off a monstrous murderer, and to save the life and sanity of a tortured girl.
Genre: Mystery
Was he really the John Marquis that Camilla had once loved? Or was he, as she had terrifying reasons to believe, her husband, come back from the grave to drive her insane?
A cryptic message brings Inspector Septimus Finch to Hammerford, to tear the mask off a monstrous murderer, and to save the life and sanity of a tortured girl.
Genre: Mystery
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