Book description
Readers of "The Emerald of Catherine the Great" will not have
to be told that Mr. Belloc s mystery stories are written with suavity
and originality and an eye for piquant situations. This new mystery tale
is the story of "Rackham Catchings," a manor house in Sussex
belonging to an amiable but improvident squire, which in payment of a
debt has come into the possession of his brother. How the squire s son,
John, is forced to earn his living as a ventriloquist in the music
halls, how ventriloquism plus a headless ghost sends the household into
a frenzy of excitement and fear, and how John succeeds in recovering his
home and winning the girl he loves make a constantly unexpected and
unusual story. Readers of "The Emerald of Catherine the
Great" will not have to be told that Mr. Belloc s mystery stories
are written with suavity and originality and an eye for piquant
situations. This new mystery tale is the story of "Rackham
Catchings," a manor house in Sussex belonging to an amiable but
improvident squire, which in payment of a debt has come into the
possession of his brother. How the squire s son, John, is forced to earn
his living as a ventriloquist in the music halls, how ventriloquism plus
a headless ghost sends the household into a frenzy of excitement and
fear, and how John succeeds in recovering his home and winning the girl
he loves make a constantly unexpected and unusual story.
