The Avenger 33 - The Blood Countess - Plot & Excerpts
Rain, in fat, heavy drops, began pouring down out of the night sky. “Very appropriate weather for a visit to a haunted castle,” observed Cole as he turned up his collar and ran across the courtyard to the front stairs of the Pedra Negra castle. Safe from the rain, on the sheltered doorstep, he lifted the heavy brass knocker and announced his arrival with several loud thumps. “At least the knocker isn’t in the shape of a bat.” A minute went by, more thunder boomed, rain splashed on the flagstones. Then the door was opened by plump, gray-haired Mrs. Andrade. “What do you wish, senhor?” “My name is Cole Wilson. I’m a friend of Richard Benson’s, and I’d like to see Miss Bentin,” he explained. “Your phone is apparently out of order, or I’d have—” “He is all right,” said the fat woman to someone down in the courtyard.
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