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A near Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. A novel from the leading gothic novelist of orphaned Charity Carew, 24 years old, living with her retired barrister uncle, who becomes secretary to famous poet Martin Revesby, who has returned from the continent to live at his inherited Cornish mansion, Malmaynes. Soon Charity is mistress of the great house on the cliffs but a shadow hangs over Malmaynes ever since two women had been horribly murdered in the village twenty years before, the murderer, a local youth, had committed suicide and a wall of secrecy had been built around the events. Charity discovers that the murderer had a close connection with the house and had been known as the Beast of Malmaynes and suddenly two more women are murdered. Could the Beast have risen from the grave?