The Mystery of the Sea. London: W. Heinemann, 1902. First Edition. Pp x, 498 + advertisements. Publisher’s pictorial cloth boards, title in gilt to upper cover & spine. Light shelf-wear to cloth, lacks front free endpaper; otherwise a nice bright copy.

Romantic adventure novel ‘set in Cruden Bay, involving a gun battle at sea, a castle with secret passages, and coded writing based on a cipher described by Francis Bacon.

[Dalby 13c]