The Mahogany House Author:June Wetherell Ernesto was holding a small clay plaque, rightly painted. The ceremony of sacrifice, the victim stretched out, his back across the stone, the executioner holding aloft the dripping heart that had been wrenched from the body. The victim's scan robe was indeed blue, the exact blue of Ellen's dress. The Maya blue... — Ellen Winlock had been on a ... more »lightheared, impetuous trip to visit Hank McNeil, the man she hoped to marry. Abruptly, she found herself an unwilling "guest" in a primitive house on a tiny tropical island - a house from which there seemed to be no escape. And suddenly, even inanimate things - the mahogany carvings, the rare old books about sinster rituals - seemed to assume a potency and menace such as she had never known. Certainly Ernesto ahd his boss, the mysterious Joe Rattner, were concealing some evil secret. And when Hank himself showed up, apparently friendly to Rattner, Ellen couldn't even begin to think of a way out. But she had to escape...« less