The Silver Bullet

On a moonlit moor, the fragile Robin Joyce falters under the steadying guidance of his friend, Dr. Jim Herrick, and the journey soon turns from a restorative walk into a descent toward danger. Robin's grief over his mother's death, his nervous temperament, and his recent financial independence from London all shadow the night, while Herrick's own thoughts are drawn to a beautiful stranger glimpsed at Southberry Church. Their path through dark pine woods leads to The Pines, a lonely Tudor mansion blazing with light and crowned by a strange new tower, a house that seems at once magnificent and deeply wrong. Inside, the travelers find splendor without life: lavish rooms, electric lights, a table set for one, and servants' quarters left in neglect. In the tower chamber, they discover Colonel Carr dead in evening dress, a revolver at hand, the wound suggesting murder or suicide. As Inspector Bridge arrives to investigate, Herrick begins to untangle a web of secrets, hidden motives, and rival suspicions. The case tightens around Bess, Stephen Marsh, Ida, Frisco, Pentland Corn, and the increasingly deceitful Robin Joyce, whose attempts to frame Bess backfire when a planted pistol is found. In this atmospheric mystery of grief, romance, and menace, every revelation deepens the sense that the truth is far more dangerous than the dead man's house first appeared. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.