Dead Man In Island

Writer: John Escott

Summary: Carol lives with her father and mother in Hong Kong. Her father is on business trip by plane. The day that he comes back there’s a plane accident. First she doesn'tthink that her father can sit in that plane. But later as she thinks it over, she calls her mother. They drive to the airplane and there they hear that her father has died.
That was really hard forCarol and her mother. Carol doesn't listen to the music of her favourite singer Jake Ross anymore. He was also killed in an accident. She doesn’t do her best at school and she gets into contact withwrong friends, and she takes drugs. One moment her mother says to Carol: “Carol where are things going with you?” Her mother concludes to go back to England, because Carol was expelled from school.
Sothey go to England and live in a hotel for a long time. Her mother finds a job as secretary and her workplace is on a little island somewhere in Scotland. She can live there with Carol. As she arrivesat the house, she meets Mr. Ross. He is her boss. Mr. Ross is a young man with a moustache. While Carol’s mother works, Carol helps on the farm on the island. One day when she comes back from horseriding she looks up and she sees an old man in a window. He looks away when she looks at him.
The next day Carol makes some pictures of the house. She looks in her camera and Mr. Ross gets out. Shewants to make a picture but then the gardener comes toward her and takes the camera out of her hands and demolishes her photograph cotton reel. She is shocked. When she asks why she can't make a photo hesaid that you never must make a photo of Mr. Ross. She finds it all completely mysterious.
That evening she goes researching and she goes to the room the window belongs to. There’s light in the room.She waits and looks. Then the door is opening. Mr. Ross comes out of the room. Carol hides in her room. She sees that Mr. Ross puts the keys in the plant barge. The next day she goes up to the...