A broad-chested, heavily bearded stranger steps off the London train at the country station of Ramsdon and is promptly mocked as the escaped monkey-man from a travelling circus. Within days there is a fight in a wood, a weeping woman, a dead man with a note in his hand and a country house, Bittermeads, whose attic hides more than one secret.
An early thriller by a writer later admired for his Bobby Owen detective novels. Download the free EPUB.