Carol Spenser's trip to her house in Maine turns into a dreadful nightmare. There is a corpse of a woman in the closet! And the maid too was pushed down the stairs. Worse still, there is a lurking presence in the Yellow Room when the entire house is supposed to be empty and locked. The police suspect Carol, but her own life is in grave danger. She gets trapped in the house and all the telephone lines have been cut off. The killer is near, very near...
