num_pages: 247
description: Glancing at her more closely he noticed dark stains on her white gown. Horror-struck he bent over her for a moment and realised that it was unmistakably a corpse.Little Polly Spencer liked to visit her hiding place up on the London rooftops to escape a scolding or worse from her stepmother. Peeping through a studio window she sees what looks like a burglary. But signs of robbery are merely a cover for murder - and the young figure on the roof seemingly the only witness to the crime.Polly is sent to live with her well-born mother's family her secret kept from the police. More than a decade later she has become Lady Warchester the wife of a wealthy titled manyet in a world utterly removed from her childhood she will finally face the pale-faced killer she glimpsed through the window all those years ago. And the danger of having seen too much is about to become acuteThe Witness on the Roof (1925) is a classic of early golden age crime fiction. This new edition the first in over eighty years features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.Miss Haynes has a sense of character; her people are vivid and not the usual puppets of detective fiction. New Statesman
language: English
title: The Witness on the Roof
publisher: Dean Street Press