Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn

The 7th and last book in the sequence of Russell Thorndike's seven novels about the Rev.Doctor Syn, the apparently harmless vicar of Dymchurch in Kent who led a secret life as a pirate and smuggler. It tells the tale of the good people of England's Romney Marsh, battling to deceive the local revenue men of duty for contraband goods from France. The men of Romney Marsh are led by a villain called The Scarecrow who is none other than the good Dr Syn, Parson of Dymchurch-under-the wall, so named as the sea is 9 feet above the sea wall. At night the frail Parson Dr Syn becomes the vicious Scarecrow, stopping at nothing to get the contraband through, crossing the moorland and dikes, riding his huge black horse Gahanna, painted with luminous paint, so as to add to the 'folklore' of the mystery of the Scarecrow.


Genre: Historical