num_pages: 282
description: All his life, Richard Fountain has known only success. He is handsome, with an enviable record for school, army and university. A future career as a talented archaeologist seems assured. That is, until he travels to Greece and meets Chriseis. Chriseis is beautiful, mesmerising and mysterious – also evil. A spellbound Richard is lured into her dark world of vice, vampirism and ritual, high up in the Cretan mountains. When his rescuers finally reach him, he has changed beyond all recognition and is seemingly destined for a tragic end. The final act at a double funeral provides a tumultuous climax to a shocking story.
language: English
title: Doctors Wear Scarlet
titlecomplete: Doctors Wear Scarlet
genres: Classics, Mystery, Vampires, Greece, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 119
publisher: House of Stratus