A locked-room murder keeps a nurse-turned-sleuth on guard in this Golden Age mystery. If the dissolute nephew of elderly Juliet Mitchell committed suicide, then why has the Homicide Squad enlisted the help of nurse Hilda Adams at the Mitchell mansion? Because Inspector Patton has his doubts about Herbert's death-even though he died by gunshot in his locked bedroom. The services of the bureau's indispensable sleuth, "Miss Pinkerton," are twofold: to care for the traumatized and bedridden Juliet, and to find out who really pulled the trigger. But Hilda's about to discover that the Mitchell family's secrets are as dark as the shadows in the creaking old house, and that there's a good reason why the servants seem gripped by an inexplicable fear. Now it's up to Miss Pinkerton to solve the case, if she can survive the night.
