The Family at Tammerton — Margaret Erskine

"MRS. CRANE IS DEAD. DO NOT SEND NURSE."

At best the telegram was a cruel joke; at worst a cryptic message warning Louise Morton to stay away from her new job at Tammerton Hall.

When Inspector Finch was called to the sinister old mansion to investigate a murder, he was not surprised, for he remembered the telegram Louise had shown him on the train to Tammerton. Finch had an instinct for spotting the first frail shoots of an evil growth. Now instinct plus experience were telling him that LOUISE MORTON WAS NEXT ON THE KILLER'S LIST!