Terror tale, and something new for Helen McCloy, something special in excitement as Edith, stopping at a New York hotel, witnesses a third degree in the room next door, finds a corpse in her own room, is victimized and shadowed, and runs away to escape a murder charge and her own death. She eludes a malignant psychiatrist, a phoney police officer, and the law, helped by her disarming ex-husband. She eventually gets clear after some harrowing hare and hounding, Smooth stuff.