This Sinister Island

This is no book to read in a lonely house, though one is convinced that if it were begun under such conditions it would be finished even though the reader had to summon a messenger boy to keep him company...

Miller ignores the warning about visiting a haunted island and soon mysterious things begin to occur with his friends! Excerpt: "Captain's Island is not far from civilisation as one measures space. Dealing with the less tangible medium of custom, it is—or was—practically beyond perception. James Miller didn't know this. When he had thought at all of his friend Anderson's new winter home he had pictured the familiar southern resort with hotels and cottages sheltering Hammonds peerage, and a seductive bathing beach to irritate the conservative."

This novel by Cecil Bernard Rutley begins with a fateful encounter on a misty evening. Dawn Cheverill, an orphan with a deep love for the sea, narrowly avoids hitting a mysterious, unconscious man on the road. Filled with compassion, she rescues him and rushes him to the hospital, unaware of the sinister secrets that await her.

Miller ignores the warning about visiting a haunted island and soon mysterious things begin to occur with his friends!_x000D_ Excerpt:_x000D_ "Captain's Island is not far from civilisation as one measures space. Dealing with the less tangible medium of custom, it is—or was—practically beyond perception. James Miller didn't know this. When he had thought at all of his friend Anderson's new winter home he had pictured the familiar southern resort with hotels and cottages sheltering Hammonds peerage, and a seductive bathing beach to irritate the conservative."_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_

This is no book to read in a lonely house, though one is convinced that if it were begun under such conditions it would be finished even though the reader had to summon a messenger boy to keep him company...