Mystery of the Downs
Author: first_name: Arthur J.
last_name: Rees
first_name:  John R.
last_name: Watson
Language: English
Year: 1918

"The storm had descended swiftly, sweeping in suddenly from the sea, driving across the downs to the hills at high speed, blotting out the faint rays of a crescent moon and hiding the country-side beneath a pall of blackness, which was forked at intervals by flashes of lightning." - Book's opening sentence