Robert blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was marion sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, the...Robert blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was marion sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, the franchise.