Jane Booker

Through financial necessity William Chettham has sold his ancestral home to university contemporary and entrepreneur Jack Filby, whilst he and his mother, wife and son Freddy live in the dower house. On the night a burglar known as the Creeper is robbing the Chief Constable, the Chetthams are celebrating Freddy's birthday with guests numbering the local doctor and writer David Roper - who made his name ghosting the biography of ex-crook Harry Godbolt.

Maddy finds herself face to face with an alien skeleton when she is called to a deserted warehouse in the middle of the night. However, before the evening is out, the American military storm the building, seize the skeleton and whisk it off to the nearest airbase, under armed guard. The mystery deepens when the alien later disappears into thin air. A call from the mothership? Or has Jonathan got a more rational explanation?