num_pages: 272
description: John Farringdale with his cousin Eric Foster visits the famous archaeologist Tolgen Reisby. At Scarweather - Reisby's lonely house on the windswept northern coast of England - Eric is quickly attracted to Reisby's much younger wife and matters soon take a dangerous turn. Fifteen years later the final scene of the drama is enacted. This unorthodox novel from 1934 is by a gifted crime writer who wrote Dorothy L. Sayers 'handles his characters like a real novelist and the English language like a real writer - merits which are still unhappily rarer than they should be in the ranks of the murder specialists.'
language: English
title: Scarweather
publisher: The British Library