The Iron Gates — Margaret Millar

PATHWAY TO MADNESS

Lucille Morrow was a fortunate and happy woman. Though middle-aged, she retained the beauty of youth; her husband, a wealthy physician, was devoted to her; she was mistress of a large and charming home.

Suddenly she was gone. In one day she changed from a serene and self-possessed woman into a creature dominated by a fear so intense that she gladly committed herself to an asylum - a fear so persistent that it gradually destroyed her mind. In his search for the cause of her flight, Detective Inspector Sands follows a long trail that takes him into an abyss of horror, murder, and inevitable retribution - and a degree of cruelty unparalleled in his experience!