The Corner House

A dazzling display of electric lights and glittering gowns spills out of No. 1 Lytton Avenue, drawing the city’s most fashionable crowds into a world of bright silk and whispered gossip. Just across the street, the Corner House looms in dark, shuttered silence, its grimy windows and foreboding façade a stark reminder of a long‑forgotten tragedy that still haunts the neighborhood. Neighbours speak in hushed tones of a vanished husband, a woman with poison in her hand, and a night when a scream cut through the rain—details that make the house seem alive with secrets, even as passersby hurry past, absorbed in their own pleasures.

Into this uneasy tableau arrives the enigmatic Countess Lalage, a striking Southern beauty whose sudden acquisition of the fashionable property sends gossip swirling through the social columns. Her wealth and charisma mask a deeper curiosity, and the arrival of a determined investigator promises to shine a light into the Corner House’s shadowed past. Listeners will be drawn into a tangled web of class, mystery, and the relentless pull of something that refuses to stay buried.