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1. Duke and Melinda Duquesne have just put on a fabulous magic show with an entrancing torture act. Duke now has a surprise for his wife and manager. When Duke shows Melinda and Buzz the new guillotine that he had built for a new act, Buzz tells Melinda it is a darling little machine. What does Melinda have to say about the expensive addition to her husband's collection?
2. Duke plans a rehearsal with the guillotine after a nice dinner that same night, after he presents it to Melinda and Buzz. Melinda refuses him at first and says she is tired. What does Duke use on the guillotine to test it, that he says is a poor substitute for Melinda?
3. A grown and well matured Cassie Duquesne, is attending her father's funeral. Estranged from her parents for twenty years, she runs across her former nursemaid, Dolly and Duke's manager, Buzz. Dolly asks Cassie if she remembers her. What is Cassie's reaction to this question?
4. Cassie is inspecting her father's house which she just inherited. Val, a reporter who attends the funeral, is also there, pretending to be interested in the house for realtor purposes. Cassie is in the upstairs bedroom and opens the closet door, after Val goes down to get her luggage. What falls out of the closet and frightens her?
5. There are many different masks in a prop room, upstairs in the house, that are used for the escape tricks onstage. Val picks up one of these masks and entertains Cassie with it. Where does Val welcome Cassie to when he places a mask on his face?
6. While Cassie is playing around with a sword and a human pincushion box that is used in magic acts, Val is exploring an escape cabinet. He enters through the front side and seems to disappear. Cassie is trying to talk to Val and turns around. She calls out to him but gets no response. Cassie actually thinks Val is gone for good. Where does Val reappear?
7. Cassie receives a peculiar phone call downstairs. When she picks up the receiver and says, "Hello", there is nothing but a breath that gets stronger and louder. Val traces the line to a tape recorder stashed behind a desk door. What does Cassie say the lingering sound is like?
8. Cassie and Val are standing on the downstairs stairway. They suddenly hear a woman sobbing. The next morning, Val figures it is coming from below and traveling through the ventilation system. The next evening, the source of the sobbing appears on the stairway leading to the third floor. Who is the heartbroken moaner?
9. Dolly believes that Duke Duquesne has kept his promise to return to his daughter Cassie. Dolly tells Cassie that her father was heartbroken when a letter that he sent was not answered. Cassie tells Dolly she never got a letter. What happened that Duke's letter was never received by his daughter?
10. Cassie loses her new housekeeper, who is frightened away by a dangling skeleton in the house. After Cassie and Val drop the cranky old woman at a bus stop, Val decides Cassie needs a day away from the trap laden house. Cassie suggests a hot spot in Los Angeles. What is the name of the jumping joint that the couple spends the afternoon in?
11. Val's friend, Joe from the newspaper, pays Cassie a visit in the middle of the day at the estate. His interfering questions bother Cassie, and she becomes more distressed when Val shows up soon after. What is Cassie doing when Joe and Val arrive minutes of each other?
12. Later that night, Cassie is tossing and turning in bed. During a nightmare she is having, many disturbing images involving the estate, plague her. A white rabbit, skeleton, her dead father in a coffin, Dolly, and Buzz appear in the dream. Cassie sees herself running, then is stopped by Dolly and Buzz who proceed to do what to the devastated dreamer?
13. Cassie awakes from the distressing dream to the sounds of chains. She grabs a poker from her bedroom fireplace, and cautiously advances out into the hall. The sounds are coming from the top floor. Cassie ascends the stairs. Where does Cassie follow the rattling sound to?
14. Cassie runs down the stairs and calls Val to alert him about her overwhelming discovery. Val tells her to lock the door, and not let anyone in, and he will be there as soon as he can. Cassie locks herself in and stays put in a chair. A short time later, she hears footsteps and someone is trying to open the door, but they retreat. Cassie tearfully moves around the downstairs till she looks around and notices something unbelievable. What does Cassie witness at the top of the stairs that makes her deliver a frenzied scream?
15. Dolly Bast returns to the house just in time to see Duke alive and attempts to persuade him that his daughter is not Melinda, his wife. Dolly reminds Duke that Melinda died and is gone. Where does Dolly tell Duke that the body is buried?
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