A narrator drives through Gylingden to Brandon Hall to attend the marriage of his old schoolfellow Mark Wylder, a bluff naval officer, to the beautiful heiress Dorcas Brandon. Then Wylder disappears, letters arrive in his handwriting from distant ports, and his clever, impoverished rival Captain Lake grows ever more uneasy as the mystery deepens.
A slow-burning Victorian sensation novel from the master of the uncanny, for readers of Wilkie Collins. Download the free EPUB.