Stories range from the uncanny title tale and ‘The Third Time’ to lighter pieces of wills, inheritances, a lost Anglo-Saxon coin and a professor’s dilemma. In ‘John Cann’s Treasure’ a young Englishman hunts a buccaneer’s buried hoard in a West Indian graveyard, guided by an aged sexton who knows every grave.
Clever, varied tales by the author of The Woman Who Did; the dialect and racial attitudes are those of the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.