Shadow of a Ghost — Constance Leonard

"If ever my slippers leave Weedham Hall, great tragedy will come to you'. That was part of the legend of the gypsy dancer, and the Phipps family had good reason to take the gypsy's threat - and her ghost - seriously. Yet one of the slippers was carried off to America where, many years later, Kathy Reade found it among her father's war souvenirs. And on a yellowed bit of newspaper crumpled inside the toe was a desperate appeal for the slipper's return". Then the story goes on - the shoe goes back to Britain - and Kathy finds herself drawn more and more into the lives and the deaths of this strange English family until she, too, was taken by the evil that haunted them.