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He Arrived at Dusk (Paperback)
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He Arrived at Dusk (Paperback)
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Loot Price R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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"In reading it I had several splendid shudders. . . . It is a piece
of living literature, not merely an evening's entertainment." - E.
B. Osborn, "Morning Post"
"A bang-up ghost-murder-detective story with a background of bleak
Northumberland moors, an old house full of haunts, and] a Roman
Centurion who appears . . . with death in his wake." - "Scribner's
Magazine"
"A well nigh perfect admixture of eerie horror, romance and good
detecting." - "Saturday Review"
"Truly a little masterpiece of a book. Reminiscent of Christie at
the height of her powers in its brilliant use of misdirection. . .
. Really a classic of its kind." - J. F. Norris, "Mystery File"
From the moment William Mertoun arrives to catalogue the library
at Colonel Barr's old mansion on the desolate Northumbrian moors,
he senses something is terribly wrong. Barr's brother Ian has just
died, mysteriously and violently, and the Colonel himself is hidden
away in a locked room, to which his sinister nurse denies all
access. As strange and supernatural events begin to unfold, Mertoun
learns the local legend of a ghostly Roman centurion, slain on the
site sixteen centuries earlier, who is said to haunt the estate.
Mertoun is sceptical at first, but after another murder, a
harrowing seance, and an actual sighting of the spirit one lonely
night on the moor, he realizes that he and everyone at Barr's
mansion are in mortal danger. What does the ghost want, and can it
be stopped? This first-ever reprinting of "He Arrived at Dusk"
(1933), R. C. Ashby's classic tale of mystery and the supernatural,
features a new introduction by Mark Valentine and a reproduction of
the original jacket art.
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