โ Scribed by Susan Hill
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An inveterate traveller, Sir James Monmouth has spent most of his life abroad. He arrives in England on a dark and rainy night with the intention of discovering more, not only about himself, but his obsession with Conrad Vane, an explorer. Warned against following his trail, Sir James experiences some extraordinary happenings who is the mysterious, sad little boy, and the old woman behind the curtain? And why is it that he only hears the chilling scream and the desperate sobbing?
Susan Hill is an award-winning novelist, author of Gentleman and Ladies, Im the King of the Castle and recently her crime novels The Various Haunts of Men and The Pure in Heart. The Woman in Black has been successfully adapted to the stage and has been running in Londons West End for 18 years.
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