THE SILENCE OF HERONDALE

Deborah, penniless in England, is hired by a Mrs. Morne to teach her prodigy-play writing thirteen-year-old niece, Careen, who promptly runs away to Herondale, in Yorkshire, to an uncle, dead before her arrival there. Following her, Deborah has all kinds of small suspicious and larger dangerous things to cope with: the Slipper Murderer said to be at large; an improvident, impudent cousin Jeremy; and of course Mrs. Morne... Although much of this is reminiscent, the handling is lively, even saucy.