"Judy Elliott est engagée comme femme de ménage dans la vieille demeure sinistre de Pilgrim's rest. Miss Silver reçoit la visite de Roger Pilgrim, héritier de Pilgrim's rest qu'il désire vendre, qui affirme avoir été victime de plusieurs tentatives de meurtre."
"Om in het levensonderhoud van haarzelf en haar geadopteerde baby te voorzien gaat een jonge Engelse als dienstmeisje op het landgoed "Pelgrims rust" werken, waarna al spoedig blijkt dat één der bewoners een wraakzuchtige moordenaar is."
"The two Miss Pilgrims, Columba and Janette, think its unwise to leave their fine ancestral home, Pilgrim's Rest. When their brother suffers a fatal fall only days after talking about selling it, and his son, barely escapes two near-fatal accidents, they suspect it deadly to leave. Surely, Miss Silver can determine why the house hates to be empty."@en
"Judy Elliot, meeting an old friend, Detective Sergeant Abbott tells him that, having been left the custody of her motherless little niece, she is taking a domestic job in the country with a family named Pilgrim. Frank is appalled, mysterious deaths have been taking place there. A curse is on the house of Pilgrim's Rest."@en