They Found Him Dead Author:Georgette Heyer Echo of a nightmare. As she went up to bed, Patricia could not help but think Jim should lock his bedroom door. But it was totally out of character for her fiance to take such a simple precaution against being murdered. And if she suggested it he would laugh at her fears. — Sighing, she climbed into bed. The moonlight cast strange shadows on the... more » walls, and there was a tapping somewhere-probably a vine being blown against the window. As she drifted off, she wondered if their half-joking theory of an Unknown Killer might not be true.
She had hardly fallen asleep, it seemed, when she awoke to the echo of a scream.« less