A. E. W. Mason – The Prisoner In The Opal [#10] (Sphere, 1974)
‘The Two Men were standing face to face, the priest sheltering what knowledge he had behind a stolid face, Hanaud towering over him, like an inquisitor …
“You did not find all your vestments in the sacristy this morning. For one of them is in the mortuary at Villeblanch stained with the blood of a young woman who dined at the same table with you in this house last night, and was savagely murdered afterwards.””
The Prisoner In The Opal is #10 in the Dennis Wheatley Library Of The Occult.
Sordid Spheres! 