When the Dowager Arabella, Lady Engleton announces to her relatives her jolly scheme to restore the familys fortunes by insuring their lives in favor of her grandson and heir, the young Lord Henry, they laugh at her and think her mad. But they wont be laughing for long. Soon she begins to kill them off one by one with sinister mirth and gruesome inventiveness . . .



Forgotten today, Edwin Greenwood (1895-1937) was the author of several clever and darkly humorous crime novels that were highly acclaimed by critics and admired by the master of the macabre, Arthur Machen. This edition...