The Red Hollow

Author/Guide: Natalie Marlow

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1934: Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanitorium

ISBN: 978-1399801843
Genre: Historical, Spy story, Suspense

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What you need to know before your trail

Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanitorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well, and Dr Moon’s patients are leaving Red Hollow in droves.

Recent disturbances, which originally appeared to be pranks, have descended into something more sinister, and now the men believe they have a malevolent visitor – the mermaid of Red Hollow. The ghost of a murdered girl, they believe the mermaid wreaks bloody revenge on unsuspecting men each time the hamlet floods.

When Private Enquiry agent, William Garrett, and freshly minted detective, Phyll Hall, are called in to uncover the identity of the intruder, they become trapped in a world of madness, the occult, and grisly murder. A world where William must use all his strength to differentiate between the real-life monster haunting Red Hollow Hall and the monsters of the mind.

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Warwickshire

Note – Originally part of Warwickshire, Birmingham expanded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

There’s an asylum for men only in the deep dark Warwickshire countryside….

“At first, Red Hollow appeared to be just a few brick cottages, hugging the roadside, their bowed fronts leaning slightly forward, as if poised to make a run for it. Then, the country opened out into a patchwork of meadow, scarred with centuries of work, and edged with ribbon-like drainage ditches, blackly frozen. And beyond, the pasture, a river, no more than a brook, its sinous meander partly outlined by willow and spindling beech, led to ill-managed woodland that hunkered dark in a distant dip in the land.”