The Little Wax Doll — Norah Lofts

It was too good to be true...

The position Canon Thorby offered Deborah as head mistress in his private school in the picturesque English village of Walwyk included a generous salary, a lovely cottage, and even a cat. After twenty years as a missionary in Africa, it seemed that Mis Deborah Mayfield had finally found a place to settle. It WAS too good to be true. For Walwyk was not what it appeared to be. The idyllic little village masked a hideous secret - a secret that could destroy the innocent as well as the guilty. Miss Mayfield had no way o fknowing that she, too, was about to become a part of htat secret.

Orginally published as The Devil's Own