Barnabas, Quentin and the Crystal Coffin

This is a really neat and very story about a woman that is in crystal coffin in a house. It starts out with a woman named Betty Ward whose sister had married a guy and moved to Collinwood.

The location of the coffin is Frene castle which is on the Collin's estate. Barnabas is telling a story to Carolyn about what happened in the late 1890's that led to the ruined state of the castle in today's world. Both he and Quentin were there to witness events.

Betty Ward is living in France. She has a twin sister named Georgette. She decides to go to America to see her. On the journey over on a boat strange things happen and she ends up suspecting that Quentin, who she met in France, is a werewolf responsible for murdering people.

She meets Barnabas on the train. She goes to the castle but is told that her sister is dead. This ends up leading to her finding her sister's body in a crystal coffin in a room in the castle. Her husband refuses to bury her and even claims that she does painting almost nightly in another room.

A woman named Vivian is living in the castle and is extremely nasty, trying to get Betty to leave. Betty ends up suspecting that Quentin, who has followed her, and Vivian are tied in to her sister's fate. Barnabas tries to help her as things get even worse for her. Barnabas turns out not to be her only friend there, fortunately, and together they work to try to get at the truth of what is happening.