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Book 3 in the Walpole Bay Hotel series.
Room 308 has been permanently reserved by an unknown client since shortly after the hotel opened in 1914 - but nobody ever stays there. Two years on, the room continues to be paid for - but it remains unoccupied. Or does it?
Upstairs maid, Annie Byford is changing the linen on the third floor. Passing room 308 she claims she hears noises coming from it, though on her list the room is recorded as empty.
Harland Grist, hotel handyman, enters room 308 to change a light bulb. He never comes out again.
The Hilliers, guests in room 307 next door, are disturbed in the night by noises coming from 308. Dr Hillier goes to complain. He too disappears.
Chief Inspector Page is brought in to investigate but a search of 308 reveals nothing - it is empty. The whisper around Margate is of supernatural happenings at the Walpole Bay Hotel. The newspapers get onto the story. Speculation is rife; spooks and ghouls are reported. The disappearances are blamed on occult happenings at the hotel. According to some, there is a phantom roaming the corridors of the place, in the diabolical form of a werewolf.
Page is dismissive of such nonsense. He's looking for a rational explanation. Then the body of Harland Grist is found on the beach. He has died, not from drowning but from a severed carotid artery. He has been bitten in the neck. The pathologist says it was by a wolf - but there are no wolves in Margate. Page is baffled but refuses to accept the now hysterical belief of the locals that there really is a beast of the occult stalking the area. He is convinced that the maid, Annie Byford, is responsible for Grist's death and arrests her.
Jane Bishop, proprietor of the Walpole Bay Hotel, is desperate. She wants answers. The publicity in the press threatens to ruin her business. Page is proving to be useless - Jane calls in Dorothy and Effie to investigate. They are her only hope.
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