Ursula Holt had spent six months in a lunatic asylum for killing and maiming farm animals while sleepwalking. Like her keepers, she is convinced of her own guilt, as is her kindly uncle, Dr. Matthew Holt. Only her loyal and loving cousin Kate, and the Holts' neighbour, wealthy Alexander Skeffington, stoutly maintain Ursula's innocence. Then, one of Dr. Holt's scalpels is used to cut a young American visitor's throat, and Ursula is immediately suspected. Detective Inspector Jackson is called in to investigate. After a second scalpel murder, Ursula flees in peril of her life. There follows a frantic investigation, both in England and America, when the chilling truth underlying Ursula Holt's somnambulism is finally brought to the light of day.
- ISBN10 0709082231
- ISBN13 9780709082231
- Publish Date 29 December 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 April 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English