By Foul Means: Restored Classics to Go Edition

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. At a fashionable Piccadilly restaurant, artist Frank Daneham watches wealthy widow Hermione Rodenberg with uneasy fascination, and his friend Henry Addison soon learns why she seems so haunted. Daneham alone knows the buried history behind her beauty: a wartime tragedy in Flanders, where young Dominic Arden secretly married Hermione, killed his commanding officer after a vile insult, and vanished into a cover-up that may have saved his life but never buried the truth. Now Hermione has returned to the lonely ancestral estate of Ardenmore, and rumors of smuggling, a hidden tower secret, and a possible surviving Dominic make the past feel dangerously close. Determined to live alone, Hermione resists the possessive devotion of Colonel Bessington and sets out with her sharp-tongued companion Iza Marsh for the remote, decaying house. There, among neglected rooms and missing keepsakes from Dominic's turret room, she finds an atmosphere thick with memory and suspicion. As Bessington, Daneham, and Hermione probe the mystery, attention turns to the stern housekeeper Betty MacIvor and the old smuggling rumors. But the deepest question remains unresolved: is Dominic truly dead, or has Ardenmore become the place where old guilt, love, and danger will finally surface?