The House of Deadly Night — Iris Barry

Mystery and death shrouded the estate where Lucinda had gone to nurse the youngest of three brothers.

The Fearful Night

By the terms of their father's will, the Mathenys brothers were required to live at Tarana, their big estate isolated in the Oregon woods. When Lucinda arrived to nurse the oldest brother Blair, she felt a dark, unfriendly chill in the house. Then a series of mysterious and threatening incidents shocked and frightened her: a knife on her pillow, a stranger prowler, mysterious footsteps in the hall. What was the terrible secret the Mathenys were determined to keep hidden? Lucinda at the find out before she was destroyed.