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First published: 1927
Pages: 168

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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.

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Dornford Yates

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 wrote for a wide middlebrow readership.