Crimson Friday

Crimson Friday is thrilling and mystifying from the moment Jane and Alan Blake are invited to tea at the home of an enigmatic neighbor, Veronica Moran. Their hostess covers a multitude of sins by means of a garish makeup and gowns that are seen nowhere outside a museum. Her passion for costumes of solid color goes so far as to include not only her own clothes but the very leashes by which she leads a pair of cats. Veronica is a harpist with a past. To conceal it, she envelops herself in an atmosphere of eccentricity. When her past catches up with her and revelations of a frightening nature are thratened, violence that ends in murder and a suicide brings her story to a hair-raising climax.