Old Mrs. Ommanney Is Dead

After the death of her husband, beautiful Camilla Ommanney returned to Hammerford to start a new life — only to find herself followed constantly and wordlessly by John Marquis, the survivor of the accident that had left her a widow — a man to whom skilled surgeons had given a handsome, waxlike face, but who had completely lost his memory.

Was he really the John Marquis Camilla had once loved, or was he, as she had terrifying reasons to believe, her husband, come back from the dead to drive her insane...?

A cryptic message brings Inspector Septimus Finch to Hammerford, to tear the mask off a monstrous murderer, and to save the life and sanity of a tortured girl.