The Woman in Black Secker & Warburg Two exceptionally talented

Two exceptionally talented

Fighting in Sweden for an ambitious warlord

later adapted by Golding as his play 'The Brass Butterfly'

Warned by Patta

floating high in the sky--is at the point of disaster

The Woman in Black Secker & Warburg Two exceptionally talentedArthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black and her terrible purpose.