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The Castle looms over Chicago, its stone walls concealing secret passageways, hidden laboratories, and trapdoors. Home of the charismatic yet murderous physician G. Gordon Gregg, it becomes the scene of brutal, painless killings of young, beautiful, wealthy women. When a newspaper reporter, Crystal, becomes suspicious and begins probing Dr. Gregg’s activities, she finds herself drawn into a dangerous romance with the very man she fears. Her growing affection, however, seals her fate—after all, what Gregg loves, he kills.
First publish date: 1974
Genre: Suspense/Romantic Suspense
Authors: Robert Bloch
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