The Velvet Web

John Harland #3

by Rae Foley

Locked away. To an outsider, Hampton Farms Sanitarium looked like a pleasant resort hotel, but beautiful Lynn Reynolds was no outsider. She was a patient in this exclusive and expensive asylum, watched over every moment, forbidden contact with her loved ones. And her memory of the past was locked away as surely as she was. Who had put her here? Who would help her escape? Dr. Thomas Matthews, who ran Hampton Farms and seemed so kindly and understanding? Young and arrogant Dr. Julian Rust, who clearly had no use for Lynn? The nurse, Mary Taylor, a lovely woman haunted by a secret torment of her own? Then the slayings began, and suddenly, Lynn not only had to prove she was sane, but that she was not a murderess.

289 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1952

About the author

A pseudonym used by Elinore Denniston

Reviews

[Kasey]

To an outsider, Hampton Farms Sanitarium looked like a pleasant resort hotel, but in reality it was an expensive and first-rate asylum. The villagers and young, arrogant Dr. Julian Rust, were convinced that the local "terror" that had been stalking them for days, was one of the hospital's psychiatric patients. Not even the hospital's chief of staff, Dr. Thomas Matthews, could explain how beautiful Lynn Reynolds escaped the locked psychiatric ward whenever the mysterious "terror" struck. And then the "terror's" stalking turned to murder...(courtesy of fantasticfiction.com)