The Red Window

At exactly midnight a gunshot shatters the silence of an aristocratic estate and all eyes turn to the crimson-curtained window where a figure was last seen alive.Behind that red window a secret died. Or did it?When a young nobleman is found murdered in a locked room suspicion immediately falls on his mysterious fiancée his estranged brother and a housemaid with too many secrets. But nothing is what it seems and the answers lie within the house's strange architecture and its blood-tinted window that seems to watch everything-and everyone.In The Red Window Fergus Hume delivers a masterfully constructed mystery soaked in gothic atmosphere and rich with psychological tension. It's a tale of family betrayal forbidden love and a house that holds too many secrets for comfort. Each chapter tightens the grip of suspense luring readers toward a shocking and unexpected climax.The window may be red-but it's what lies behind it that will haunt you.