The story opens beside a Scottish loch with the dark young Hugo Luttrell and a dead man’s testimony, and moves on to London lodgings in Gower Street and an heiress of Strathleckie. A case of mistaken identity sends its characters to Italy, where a monk called Brother Dino, a mountain-side and the Villa Venturi hold the keys to the mystery.
A long, well-plotted Victorian sensation novel for readers who like inheritances and secrets. Download the free EPUB.