The setting is Canada, a fishing camp in the French Canadian section. Treadgold, ostensibly on vacation, has come on mysterious errand, which is concerned with some stamps in the possession of the village storekeeper. A haunted house -- a succession of deaths -- and a lovely girl further complicate a first rate tale. Williams can be counted on for plot, suspense and unusual literary merit ...

Valentine Williams (born George Valentine Williams, 1883–1946) was a journalist and writer of popular fiction.