melvin douglas smart

Enter a treasure-filled story, one packed with pirates, ghosts, and spies, and sprinkled liberally with a mysterious mixture of truth and lies. Malcolm Westcott is a British merchant seaman now back on shore, who takes the job of renovating a derelict cottage on the edge of Dartmoor. It is there in a dusty attic that he makes an unexpected discovery.He meets a stranger named Stamford, a beautiful Russian spy, and then encounters a series of strange events that appear to be a warning. Lacking perception, he fails to register their meaning, and it all ends in a frightening conclusion.