When a woman vanished in Adelard Odd’s room, the resultant scandal closed the asylum at Quartersoake permanently. In 1925, nearly twenty years after Odd’s death, Lewis Spender and Roger North are willing to brave the room’s evil reputation in order to discover the truth.In this novel by W.S. Lacey, appalling things happen to wonderful people and at least one person goes in want of an umbrella.The first in a series of stories about the darker side of the life of fairies.