Accused of the murder of her own husband, Rachel Minchin is freed only to be rescued from a lynch mob by the enigmatic Steel, who lures her into a strange mockery of marriage and life on the fabulous estate. Rachel finds few...

E. W. Hornung was friendly with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and married his sister. He is best known for having taken his brother-in-law's detective pair, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and reincarnated them on the wrong side of the law as Raffles and Bunny, who pursued the business of getting a living by the entirely logical method of stealing it.