Janet Creswell, whilst struggling to come to terms with her husband's sudden death, received a letter, followed by a visit from a man named Richard Medley. A former university professor, he had been a pupil at Brantwood, a boys' preparatory school in Sussex, where, for one term in 1944, she had been matron. Their meeting brings back many memories to her, but also raises some doubts. Was the headmaster, Edward Blackstone, with his maltreatment of his daughter and the boys, merely an eccentric, or was he deeply disturbed, mad, or even being poisoned? And had his death by drowning in the swimming pool been an accident, or had he been murdered? What starts as simple curiosity, becomes near obsession as Janet meets several of those involved in the school at that time, both pupils and staff and finally discovers the truth about all those distant and disturbing events.
- ISBN10 0709083254
- ISBN13 9780709083252
- Publish Date 30 April 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 July 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English