Foot-Steps in the Night — Dolores Hitchens

The dark specter of murder stalks the streets of Dellwood and all the clues point to the FOOT-STEPS IN THE NIGHT

Sheriff Ferguson found plenty of skeletons in the closet in the new Dellwood houses -- Who was prim Miss Silvester's midnight visitor?

Why was Mr. Holden terrified of his wife?

Where was tight-lipped Mr. Arthur's grandfather on the night of the murder?

How did the crippled Dronk boy fit into the picture????

And why was everyone so anxious not to talk????

The Southern California land had been in Dronk's family for years, but he sold most of it to developers, and that's how Dellwood came to be. Once a few new houses went up, they flocked to buy... Miss Silverter, the repressed spinster with a hidden passion. The brash, young Arthur family, including their stubborn old grandfather. The Holdens, a curious couple who feed off each other's weaknesses. And the tightly-wound Bartletts, with their beautiful young daughter, who immediately befriends Dronk's crippled teenage son. When she disappears one evening, the Bartletts naturally assume that the son is involved. But Dellwood is so full of secrets that the son is only one of Sheriff Ferguson's suspects. They're all guilty of something.