Sir Arthur Byrne, falling ill after three summers at a lonely consulate on the Black Sea, takes sick leave and hurries home to the Harley Street doctors by way of Constantinople. What follows is the mystery of Ashiel, in which suspicion falls close to home and a young woman finds herself in love with a man already bound to a Miss Tarver.
A leisurely Edwardian mystery that mixes detection with domestic romance. Download the free EPUB.