The great banking house of Dunbar, Dunbar and Balderby awaits the return of its head, Henry Dunbar, after thirty-five years in India. He is met at Southampton by Joseph Wentworth, a former clerk he once ruined, and soon afterwards a body is found near Winchester. Wentworth’s daughter Margaret and the clerk Clement Austin are drawn into the mystery.
A tightly plotted sensation novel from Braddon’s most popular decade. Download the free EPUB.