Passenger to Nowhere P. R. Morrison "The Villa of Mysteries"

"The Villa of Mysteries"

Charles follows clues which lead him from England to Australia and a diabolical scheme involving fraud and murder

Born of bright-white wishing and black-edged desire

alter the political balance of Europe

How was it that the unremarkable younger son of a rich plutocrat

Passenger to Nowhere P. R. Morrison "The Villa of Mysteries"To Sarah Hollis and her flat mates a ramsackle villa in the French Pyrenees seemed to offer the perfect holiday On the way she had met by chance a man called Arthur Crook, thoguh she could scarcely believe his assertion, made with hearty and cosy vulgarity, that he was by profession a lawyer. A time would come when Sarah would have need of Crook's services Set in the deep countryside of France, this ecciting story tells of Sarah's dangerous