The fabled novel of an eminent physician who agrees to work along side one of the city’s most notorious gangsters to put an end to a strange and mysterious series of deaths that have claimed a child, a millionaire, one of the don’s men and the doctor’s nurse. Investigation leads the pair to the uncanny Madame Mandilip, proprietress of a most unusual doll shop, and her apparently mute and terrified daughter. Soon the Mafia don lies on the verge of death and the doctor finds himself the victim of strange hallucinations–or are they? This novel, which inspired the legendary 1930’s horror film, Devil Doll with Lionel Barymore, is considered one of the supreme masterpieces of dark fantasy