Critic’s Choice/Bart Book, New York, 1987, 1^st Bart Book ed.  ISBN 1-55547-165-X.  MMPB, 351 pages.  Wraps show edge and cover wear, creases and reading creases, front corners reinforced with tape; binding sound.  Book store stamps on verso of front wrap with a bit of transference onto FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  Based on true events.  ‘On Wednesday, 28^th August, 1878, Esther Cox, a plain, unassuming girl from the town of Amherst in Nova Scotia rode out in a buggy on her first date.  Storm clouds lowered on the horizon; later there was lightning and torrential rain.  Esther returned at nightfall, soaked through and too distraught to speak to her family; her innocent trip had turned into the beginning of a personal nightmare.  At first there were rustlings in her bedroom at night, then unseen hands gouged a terrible message on her wall; ESTHER COX, YOU ARE MINE TO KILL!  On the third night, Esther leaped from her bed.  “Oh, my God’, she screamed.  “I’m dying!  Please dear God!  I’m dying!”’