The Libri GmbH The Shadow On Ravenswood Hall Paperback

When Thomas Ashworth receives a letter from an old Oxford friend - delivered by hand, with no postmark, and signed with a single word of fear - he boards the five o'clock train to Wiltshire without telling a soul. By the time he arrives at Ravenswood Hall, Edmund Ravenswood is already dressed for the dinner at which he promised to reveal everything. By half past ten, Edmund is dead, and Thomas finds himself locked in a house full of people with reasons to lie: a charming heir who stands to lose a fortune, a physician who knows too much and drinks too heavily, a sharp-eyed cousin who warns of danger while concealing her own, and a young woman in a dark green dress who claims to be Edmund's daughter and seems to know exactly where every piece of evidence will be found. As October rain closes in over the Wiltshire countryside, Thomas must untangle a conspiracy months in the making - one built on stolen money, slow poison, and the lethal patience of a man who has been waiting twenty years to inherit what he was promised.