The Bird in the Chimney Author:Dorothy Eden "My Dearest Fanny, — If ever you have doubts as to what is happening, if ever you are uneasy, will you tell me, or send a message to me or my aunt? If this injunction seems like nonsense to you now, it may not always be nonsense... Adam" — Fanny knew then that Adam felt as she did about the strange events at Darkwater. even before the su... more »dden death of the old Chinese amah, she had sensed a chill of menace in the atmosphere. Now there was real peril in the mists and fogs that beshrouded the ancient English estate.