Out of the Night — Dan Ross

Blonde Kate Donald had been recently left a widow. The authorities had closed the file on her husband's death as an accident--his care had skidded on a narrow curve of road not far from the Bay Chaleur Canning Company and his body lost in the bay--but Kate had never accepted their verdict.

It was good of Inspector Ken Regent of the Mounted Police to offer to help her, she felt, for she was quite sure that Ken agreed with the authorities.

It was after Ken's visit that she took a walk in the fog and met the stranger who looked so amazingly like her dead husband. Bill Prentiss appeared to be just what he stated he was--an American travel agent interested in booking tours to Canada. Yet it was after his visit to her cottage that Kate missed a candle stick of twisted brass that he had admired and suggested that she show to Sir Ralph Brent, a specialist in Oriental pieces.

On a hunch, Kate decides to visit Sir Ralph when she went to Fredericton to consult David Frome, editor of the Atlantic Messenger, for she had written several articles.

Kate's sense of mystery deepens after her visit to the eccentric Sir Ralph, and this feeling is heightened when she sees Sir Ralph's beautiful brunette niece with Bill Prentiss's companion of that stormy night in the fog, Jack Merle.

It is inevitable that Kate Donald should go to Bay Chaleur, where she stays at the luxurious Chateau Montcalm--inevitable that she should meet Bill Prentiss there--but no one could possibly have foreseen the identity of the power behind the grim happenings at the Bay Chaleur Cannery.