The Hellfire Club (Abridged, Book, Abridged edition)

Nora Chancel and her weakling husband Davey live in Westerholf, Connecticut, a suburb that has recently has been the site of the murders of four women--a circumstance that has attracted national attention. When the Chancels visit the police station to identify a friend who has disappeared, Nora is kidnapped at gunpoint by Dick Dart, who has just been arrested as the suspected killer.