The Money-spider

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. On a glittering yacht off the French Riviera, wealthy magnate Peter Sundt presses his old friend, the weather-beaten Arctic sea captain Jorgen Berentsen, into a secret bargain that Jorgen suspects is immoral and ruinous. As they move from Monte Carlo's dazzling casinos to a cheap hotel rendezvous, Sundt's cold blackmail leaves Jorgen trapped between conscience and self-preservation, with his beloved daughter Thyra's honor hanging in the balance. The luxurious world around them only sharpens the sense of danger, and the crisis ends in shocking tragedy when a mysterious young woman recognized by Sundt swallows poison at the Café de Paris. The story then turns to the bleak northern coast of Vardo, where Thyra lives in isolation and anxiety, sensing that some dark force has reached into her family's life. In London, Jorgen and Sundt clash over the death of Thyra's husband, Paul Grinevitch, and the rumors that surround her name, while Sundt points suspicion toward hidden rivals and Richard Jervoise. As the tangled past is probed, Jervoise waits for a secret meeting, and Thyra arrives by taxi, bringing the novel's web of secrecy, jealousy, guilt, and looming catastrophe into sharper focus.