A three AM phone call about a locked room changed everything

from the school?” I asked.

“The very one,” she said. “The landlord took the deposit. But Alan does not know that.”

She looked toward the hallway where the girls were quiet in their bedrooms. The radiator let out a low, metallic hum, a familiar sound that had kept us company through the worst of the winter.

“He thinks I am just waiting for him to make continue reading …