John Fothergill West, a law student, moves with his family to the wild Wigtownshire coast and finds a strange neighbour at Cloomber Hall: Major-General Heatherstone, a retired Indian army officer who hides behind high walls and dreads a particular anniversary. Three Buddhist adepts arrive from a shipwreck, and an old crime in the Hindu Kush begins to surface.
An early Doyle novel of mysticism and dread, written before Sherlock Holmes became famous. Download the free EPUB.