PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Stella wakes up in Saxby House. She is bandaged. Stella finds out her family are dead, killed in a car crash
Stella is being watched over, some would say kept prisoner, by her ghastly Awful Aunt Alberta who wants to claim the inheritance that is rightly Stella’s.
Alberta fought for Germany in the war because she liked their uniform. She has a pet owl
Stella escapes her bandages and the room and hears Alberta talking to Stella’s headmistress on the telephone saying something like, “Don’t expect Stella back any time soon.”
Stella finds a spare key under the door. She escapes into the night but is tragically captured again by Alberta’s owl,
called Wagner.
Alberta puts Stella down in the basement after her attempted escape.
In the cellar, Stella meets Soot a ghost of a chimney sweep.
Soot and Stella agree to become detectives to try and find out what has really happened to Stella’s parents and if Alberta is responsible.
Stella and Soot manage to escape. They inspect the wrecked rolls Royce that was her parents and manage to telephone the police who do not seem in a hurry to come to Stella’s rescue.
