Caravan of Night — Margaret Erskine

Noel Craig had always believed she was destined to lead a rich and happy life. Victim of a lonely childhood, her heart reached out to find love and affection in everyone she met.

Then out of the bleak shadows of a rainy evening came a hearse with a spectral driver who bade her join him, and suddenly Noel was plummeted into a world filled with suspicion and doubt. Was Noel's tormented heritage coming to claim her in the phantasmal glass hearse?

Then as if to strike a final blow, there came murder, shocking and sudden, Noel found comfort in George Bratten who said her loved her and believed her to be the innocent victim of a sinister plot. Yet Noel was too frightened to trust him. And so she began to probe into secrets that might soon drive her into an abyss of madness -- and death.

Trying to play the unfamiliar part of a matchmaker, Inspector Septimus Finsh found that Cupid's arrows often have poisoned tips.