The House on 16th Street — Emily Thorne

At first, lovely young Rosalind Jeffries was puzzled by the mysterious aura that seemed to shroud Cheney House with gloom. But as the days passed, her puzzlement turned to terror. Suddenly she was aware of danger at every landing, behind every locked door, in the ingratiating smiles of those around her. Could even the man she loved, handsome Richard Thomas, be trusted?

Rosalind did not know, but she had to find out the truth before it was too late ... before someone--or something--drove her away from the house on Sixteenth Street forever.

When Rosalind Jeffries, a pretty and intelligent N.Y.U., arrives at Cheney House, a historical landmark on West Sixteenth Street, to join her Uncle Charles, she is wholly unaware of the doubts and anxieties which will assail her in the ensuring weeks.

Not even her charming, kind-hearted uncle, who has invited her to stay with him after her mother's death and has offered to pay all her college expenses, is able to make her feel at home.

For Rosalind, each night shortly after midnight, hears a ghost -- a poltergeist, in fact -- running through the halls. And only a dim-witted maid shares her fears.

Cousin Ettie, a tyrannical housekeeper, to confound Rosalind further, attempts through astrological data to turn Rosalind against her uncle and to convince him that he must sell the old house.

And when Rosalind meets and falls in love with handsome Richard Thomas, a biographer interested in the Cheney house, she doubts that his interest in dating her goes beyond the academic.

Rosalind's anxieties increase almost to the breaking point, until, calling on all her courage, she determines to solve the mystery surrounding the beautiful old house. But danger awaits her at every landing, behind every locked door, and in the ingratiating smiles of those around her.

Hero: Richard Thomas
Heroine: Rosalind Jeffries