num_pages: 240
description: Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson a collector of precious stones to a weekend party at his country house Thrackley.The house is gloomy and forbidding but the party is warm and hospitable  except for the presence of Jacobson the sinister butler. The other guests are wealthy people draped in jewels; Jim cannot imagine why he belongs in such company.After a weekend of adventure  with attempted robbery and a vanishing guest  secrets come to light and Jim unravels a mystery from his past.
language: English
title: Weekend at Thrackley
publisher: The British Library