Two men are cast up on a wild Australian shore, and one of them, the elegant Gaston Vandeloup, finds his way to the goldfields near Ballarat. There Mrs Villiers, called Madame Midas for her luck with the Pactolus claim, takes him in, and his charm leads to deception, a disappearance and crime.
Victorian Australian crime fiction from the author of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. Download the free EPUB.