The Nebuly Coat

When the young architect Edward Westray arrives in the decaying town of Cullerne to oversee repairs on its great minster church, he expects little beyond crumbling stone and parish gossip. Instead he is drawn into an old scandal surrounding the Blandamer family and the heraldic device, the nebuly coat, that hangs over the town. As the mysterious new Lord Blandamer offers to fund the entire restoration, Westray begins to suspect that a hidden crime lies behind such generosity. John Meade Falkner weaves architecture, music, and quiet menace into a slow-burning tale of ambition and buried guilt, praised for its atmosphere and its sense of place. This free PDF and EPUB edition brings the full novel to new readers.