The police description of the missing schoolgirl read:
‘Full name: Helen Jennifer Merriman. Age: nine and a half. Height: four feet two inches. Build: slender. Eyes, blue; Hair, long and fair, worn in two plaits. Particulars of missing person’s apparel when last seen: Blue school blazer and navy pleated skirt, white shirt blouse, red tammy-shanter, white socks and brown shoes.’
What had happened to her? Her frantic mother wondered if her child was lying out on the Common with a broken leg or had tumbled into the pond and drowned among the scummy water-plants…
Then the police learned that a man with homicidal tendencies had escaped from a Mental Hospital, and had been seen talking to a little girl…
A jilted painter sets out to take revenge on his rival in both love and art. A room to let harbours a macabre secret. A man fears his soul has been stolen. A woman is haunted by visions of a lost child. An antiques dealer happens across a crook who has previously defrauded him. A foster child has a peculiar obsession with an old painting…
Seven stories of crime, fear, and the mysterious workings of the mind.

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