The Crime of Laura Sarelle

The Crime of Laura Sarelle is a 1940 novel by the British author Marjorie Bowen, published under the pen name Joseph Shearing. The original title was simply Laura Sarelle. A Gothic story, it takes place in Ireland at the crumbling ancestral home of the Sarelles. Excerpt: “THEY are not to be spoken of; they dwell in darkness!” Laura answered swiftly: “They dwell in this house!” Her brother looked at her with gloomy rebuke. “Why must you go over these old stories? I told you before you came here that such things were not to be discussed.”