The Devil and Her Son

In this suspenseful mystery by one of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction's four Queens of Crime, a desperate woman's innocent escape from London turns deadly.
"The best of mystery writers."—The New Yorker

Out of a job, a home, and luck, Mary Coleridge tells a seemingly innocuous lie in order to take a break from the pressures of London. Posing as her friend, Marie-Elizabeth Mason, Mary travels to the countryside to visit Miss Mason's wealthy aunt. The estate is grand, Mrs. de Liane eager ...