Don't Open the Door! — Ursula Curtiss

Death came to call on three women in a quiet town. It came in many guises - a note, the phone, a knock at the gate. It lurked in lilac bushes and abandoned toolsheds, peered through curtained windows, and struck with relentless fury!

The town locked its doors and huddled down to sleep - while a lonely girl battled a dreadful caller who had the face of a trusted friend!

Even if the neighbors had believed Molly Pulliam's incorharrant story of something hiding behind the lilac bush, it would have made no real difference in the end. Eventually she would have opened the door to her deadly visitor.

Her murder rocked the quiet community. Unlike an occasional stabbing in a bar in downtown Albuquerque, this tragedy came frightening close to home. The Sherriff's officers, however, had no reason to question the very small boy who was visiting his cousin Eve Quinn, and it would have helped him if they had.

Eve, a slender fair-haired girl, was too preoccupied with getting over a disastrous engagement to wonder what the mysterious treasure was that Ambrose wanted to get for him in the toolshed, or why the usually indeflectible little boy wouldn't go into the shed himself. And so the killer, driven by his twisted hate, was free to knock on another door, to get another victim.