Out Went The Taper

Description

A dreary, barracklike rectory under the foreboding shadow of the crumbling ruins of an ancient Welsh monastery provides the background for this mystery – surpassing in horror He Arrived at Dusk. The people in the cast are the Reverend Ambrose, the village rector, and a student of things psychic; Mrs. Cory, his wife; Nigel and Nora, their son and daughter; Tal Winyatt, an American spending his vacation at the rectory; Doctor Gabor, a German scientist with a belief in ghosts and a strange, unhappy past; Mrs. Cory’s sister; Mrs. Powys, a medium; Swan Stenhalls, Mick Webster, and Tony Cleeve, strangers in the valley; and Mr. Collins, owner of the rectory. It is Tal, the young American, who finally solves the mystery of the ghosts that haunt the monastery, but not before two murders have been committed in cold blood, one love affair has been finished forever, and a second begun.