Dead of Night

World-renowned writer Powys Jubb wakes up every morning at 4.20 when his bedroom clock stops ticking. He soon becomes convinced that at 4.20 one morning, he will die.

His name was Smith. It sounded so ordinary yet his crimes horrified and appalled the England of his day. When journalist Jane Hornby investigates, she finds the past lives on in the present.

Shortly after a woman moves her family to Sussex so that she and her husband can raise their children away from London, she begins hearing sounds coming from the attic at night which no one else can hear.

Jane and Frank Pullar have recently moved to a house in Sussex so that the children can grow up away from the dirt and rush of London. Soon Jane starts hearing sounds at night from the attic. But there is no one there and only she can hear them.