Step in the Dark

vi, 297, [1] pp. 8vo. "From the moment when, dining alone in her Brussels hotel, she opened her cigarette case and the Count came into her life with the polite offer of a match, to a day several months later when, a privileged prisoner on a Swedish island, she watched with painful intensity the Count's careless manipulation of a handkerchief, Georgia Yeo tasted panic. A celebrated author of crime thrillers, she had written of it often enough, but never before in her quiet life had she known it. And now she found herself forced to exploit her talent for the benefit of a notorious international swindler. How she matched her wits against the Count's, how, in spite of her complete isolation, she worked out a specialized ruse which might enable her publisher to save her, and how she finally avoids violent death, is told in one hair-raising situation after another."