Behind a narrow doorway near Fenchurch Street, the African trading house of Girdlestone and Co. is secretly near collapse. John Girdlestone, sanctimonious and hard, and his brutal son Ezra scheme over a diamond corner and their wealthy young ward, while Tom Dimsdale studies medicine and plays rugby in Edinburgh before following the trail to the West African coast.
Doyle’s early novel of 1890, with lively Edinburgh student scenes drawn from his own days there. Download the free EPUB.