A train creeps out of Euston into the wet night carrying the Marchesa Soderrelli, a cool, cigarette-smoking traveller with a green bag stamped with a coronet. Her journey draws her into a plot of hermits, a maiden of the waters, a menacing gathering and a woman on the wall, where a traveller notices that a mountaineer guards only one end of his sack.
An atmospheric romance of intrigue by the American master of the Uncle Abner detective stories. Download the free EPUB.