About twenty miles south of Chester stands an old, neglected mansion, gloomy among its giant trees, the home of the debt-ridden Richard Marston and his wife. The visit of his worldly cousin Wynston Berkley and the presence of a beautiful French governess, Mademoiselle de Barras, stir jealousy and greed, until the household wakes to find that a crime has been committed under its roof.
A tense, morally dark novella from the Irish master of the Victorian gothic. Download the free EPUB.