Touch and Go: A Golden Age Mystery

I know what well do. Well play Devil-in-the dark.When Sarah Trent was engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred she didnt bargain for a series of sinister occurrences--scary noises the nocturnal rattle of claws against glass a sabotaged bicycle. Then there is a neighbouring burglary leaving a set of muddy footprints--but whose?Sarah comes to suspect that someone is trying to kill the orphaned Lucilla sole heir to a fortune. Is it visiting American John Brown or could Lucilla be playing a deceptive game of her own? Someone is poised waiting like a snake to strike and Lucilla may not be the only prey...Touch and Go was originally published in 1934 (original UK title: Devil in the Dark). This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think now to enjoy myself--and I always do. Mary Dell Daily Mirror