![]() On entering the room, Sally's strangled body is found. The following day, Martha complains that Sally has overslept again. ![]() Cedd's church fete, Sally announces that Stephen has asked her to marry him. Maxie has managed to deceive his devoted servant Martha, pretending to take the tablets when he is simply concealing them for a suicide attempt. Stephen says that Sally had brought him some of their terminally ill father's sleeping tablets, Sommeil, which she found under old Mr. Also present at the meal are Steven's former romantic interest, Catherine Bowers Alice Liddell, warden of St Mary's Refuge and Dr Epps, the family doctor.ĭeborah later visits Stephen at the hospital where he works and sees her brother talking with Sally. Serving at table is Sally Jupp, chosen from a local refuge for unmarried mothers to help in the house by Mrs Maxie and now living in with her infant son, Jimmy. Maxie's son and daughter, Stephen Maxie and Deborah Riscoe, are both at the party. Eleanor Maxie at Martingale, a manor house in the (fictional) Essex village of Chadfleet. The story opens with a dinner party hosted by Mrs. Mine eyes dazzle she died young," which is quoted by one of the characters in the novel. ![]() The title is taken from a passage from John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: " Cover her face. It details the investigations into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead. Cover Her Face is the debut 1962 crime novel of P. ![]()
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