An isolated country house sets the scene for a wartime mysteryfrom the #1New York Times–bestselling author known as the American Agatha Christie.As far as Carol Spencer is concerned, the war has spoiled everything.She and Don had been engaged for years and were on the verge ofmarriage when he was shot down in the South Pacific, leaving Carol onthe verge of spinsterhood at twenty-four. She wants to take some kind ofjob in the war effort, but her invalid mother demands that Carolaccompany her to the family’s summer home in Maine. But when they arriveat the faded mansion, they find it completely locked up. The servantsare gone, the lights are dark—and there is a body in the closet.There is a killer on the grounds of the abandoned Spencer estate, andthe police believe it is Carol. As war rages across the seas, CarolSpencer fights a private battle of her own—to prove her own innocence,and to save her mother’s life,