num_pages: 219
description: The heiress to a vast fortune is targeted in this page-turning novel from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Ann Vernon is lunching at the Luxe when she overhears two people talking about someone who must be gotten out of the way. She has no idea that shes that very someone! Against the advice of her boyfriend Charles Anstruther whose marriage proposal shes just rejected Ann accepts a position as secretary to an elderly woman. She accompanies Mrs. Halliday and her son Jimmy on a cruise where she meets handsome charming Gale Anderson. After a few days the Emma puts in anchor at Loch Dhu a remote Scottish island marked by sharp rocks heather and steep cliffs. Suspecting something is not right about Anns employers Charles begins an unofficial investigation. He travels to Loch Dhu only to discover theres no way to get on the island. As the days count down to a wealthy mans death steps are taken to eliminate Ann before she can inherit the estate of Elias Paulett the great-uncle shes never met. And once the final piece of a monstrous scheme is set in motion not even the man she loves may be able to save her. Kirkus Reviews hails beloved British crime writer Patricia Wentworths Fear by Night as  well done and full of creeps. 
language: English
title: Fear by Night
publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller