a twin sister who, the cable to Australia has confirmed, arrived in England the day before the events in question. The fun-loving sisters thought the stunt would be an amusing joke to play on Montgomery Jones. The Clergyman's Daughter / The Red House It is just before Christmas when a young lady called Monica Deane calls at Blunt's agency. She and her impoverished, widowed, invalid mother inherited a house from a well-off sister of her father's. They expected to inherit some money to go with the house but, to their surprise, there was little forthcoming. They did not want to sell the house, as it provided plenty of room for them compared to their small flat. They made plans to open the house to paying guests to supplement their income. All went well for a time until they started to have strange occurrences with pictures falling off walls and crockery being smashed when no one was in the room — a poltergeist, which scared their guests and their income away. A Dr O'Neill from the Society for Psychical Research has visited and offered to buy the house from them to further his investigations. Monica, however, is certain that he is the younger man (now in disguise) who previously made them an offer for the house. The only other resident in the house now is Crockett, an elderly maid of Monica's aunt who has a young nephew of whom she is very proud. Tommy and Tuppence travel to the "Red House" and begin their investigations, harbouring suspicions that the old lady had hidden money in the building that would account for the remainder of her fortune being missing. Tommy makes a visit to the local bank and finds out from the manager that the aunt withdrew all of her money before she died. Under the guise of potential buyers, they explore the house and Monica gives them papers of her aunt's. Before they can investigate these further, they hear a crash and find a jug and basin broken in a room overhead. They quickly interview Crockett and notice that she is out of breath. They mention to her that they intend to buy the house. Monica receives a message soon afterwards from "Dr O'Neill" that his own offer has increased. It is obvious that the old maid is the one creating "disturbances" and that the "Doctor" is her nephew, trying to