The Reflection of Evil

by Jan Roffman

Holly Villas - a strange old mansion, a house divided by ghosts of the past and the secrets of the present...

Joanna Crane wasn't unduly nervous living in such complete isolation, until she discovered there was no explanation for the sound of footsteps - where footsteps had no right to be; cigarette ashes - newly dropped in a house where no one smoked; double orders of dinner - by a man who ate barely enough to keep him alive...

She realized there was someone else living in the divided house, but it was quite by accident that she discovered who he was...Then, as she poised herself to run for her life, a door slowly opened, and Joanna knew she had waited too long...

Genres: Gothic

142 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Pseudonym of Margaret Summerton

Reviews

[Adrian Griffiths · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite a slight story about a woman who takes a live-in job in a remote sinister house, and uncovers mystery and danger within. The secret is revealed at around the halfway point, and the remainder of the book is just an extremely protracted study of all the different ways the heroine tries to escape, and all the different ways her captor prevents her from doing so. I got bored waiting for it to end, as for almost half the book's length, only this one thing was happening.

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