Description
Somewhere among the dust and cobwebs of the Benevent family home lies hidden the legendary Benevent treasure. But a terrible death has been prophesied for all who dare to uncover it.
When she first arrives to stay with her two elderly maiden aunts, Candida dismisses such thoughts from her mind. But soon they become impossible to ignore. Soon she is quite convinced that somewhere, somehow, among the gloomy vaults of the Benevents' country home, those ancient prophecies will be horribly fulfilled.
It takes all Miss Silver's ingenuity to divert the Benevent curse .. .