The shrouded walls

by Susan Howatch

Book Overview

'We were seventeen when our parents died...Alexander and I did not realise at first that we were destitute. It was Sir Charles Stowell, a friend of my father's who finally told us the my father's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B00005WUEE
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Stein and Day
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great gothic

I really enjoyed this Susan Howatch book. Despite the formulaic plot, the characterisation of the heroine and the hero are slightly out of the ordinary. In the midst of the murders and detection, the romance is nicely developed. The heroine is quite young and childish but the hero, Axel is approriately mysterious! A well written Gothic read and the only historical one out of the six short novels that Howatch wrote before her masterpiece Penmarric was published.