Hornet's Nest — Evelyn Bond

Her name was Julia -- and her fate was to be caught up in a maelstrom of horror on a forbidding island!

Isle of Fear
Old Mr. Ramsey, the head of an immensely rich Southern family was dying. His one wish was to see his granddaughter, a girl missing for years.

When his grandson Keith heard Julia Driscoll sing in a club, the mysterious boy had other reasons for asking her to assume the role of the girl. Julia agreed to the dangerous masquerade -- but on Nest Island found, to her frozen horror, that she was in a hornet's nest... and the sting was death!

Sound of Doom

Julia gasped and turned around, looking for an exit but not finding one. There was no furniture in this shack, so she gave up any chance of getting a weapon into her hands…

Suddenly the key halted its progress in the lock, Julia waited for the series of scraping noises with which the lock would be removed, but they didn't come. She assumed the heavy pounding of her heart in her ears prevented her from hearing. Then she realized the tension had kept her from hearing another sound -- that of a man's slow, steady footsteps coming closer and closer…