The Great Mistake — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Madman's Dream

The great mansion known as the Cloisters loomed above the town like a ghostly apparition. Built of stones ripped from an ancient monastery, it was the creation of a willful millionaire's twisted imagination. Now it was dead, but he had left his distracted widow and his handsome, dissolute son condemned to live imprisoned in this monument to unholy pride and power.

Then one day the haunted pair were joined by young and lovely Patricia Abbott. And soon she, too, learned that a madman's dream had become the home of terror…