Blind Corner
Sent down from Oxford after a brawl, young Richard Chandos falls in with the cool and capable Jonathan Mansel, and the two set off for the mountains of Austria to recover a fortune hidden at the bottom of a well beneath a ruined castle. Standing in their way is ‘Rose’ Noble, a ruthless and clever criminal who means to have the treasure himself, and the contest becomes a tense game of nerve, ambush, and betrayal. First of Dornford Yates’s Chandos adventures, this 1927 thriller pairs clubland manners with real menace and a fast, muscular pace. It was among the most popular English adventure novels of its day. Free to read here in PDF and EPUB.
About the Author
Dornford Yates was the pen name of Cecil William Mercer (1885-1960), a bestselling English author between the wars. He alternated the light social comedy of his Berry novels with fast Chandos adventure thrillers. A barrister by training and a cousin of the writer Saki, he…
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