Successful dramatist Victor Dermott rents an isolated ranch-house in the Nevada Desert. For two months all is ideal, then one bright summer morning he wakes to find his dog, his guns, his servant vanished - and the telephone dead.

The terror has begun ...

''Agonising tension sustained throughout a first-rate story'' Evening Standard

Successful dramatist Victor Dermott rents an isolated ranch-house in the Nevada Desert. For two months all is ideal, then one bright summer morning he wakes to find his dog, his guns, his servant vanished - and the telephone dead.

The terror has begun ...

''Agonising tension sustained throughout a first-rate story'' Evening Standard