A chance encounter with a pickpocket leads Peter Kerrigan to Marsh Manor, where the librarian is on the trail of the missing treasure, supposedly hidden by Lord Claydon a hundred years previously. And the fact that the librarian has been murdered rather suggests that he was on the right track. Soon Kerrigan finds himself in competition with Lord Claydon's descendants as a scramble ensues to locate the fabled treasure, the clue to which appears to lie in a series of Shakespearean quotations that decorate the Manor library. But with one murder already committed and at least one dangerous criminal desperate to get their hands on the loot, it seems that this treasure hunt may lead only to tragedy...
Originally published in 1933 this golden age mystery thriller is the second of two novels to feature A.G. Macdonell's lovable anti-hero, the adventurer Peter Kerrigan.
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