AustLit

A blown-out tyre, and a series of unfortunate happenings force Jack Mayne, his wife and sister who are driving with him to accept hospitality of a stranger they have picked up on their route. In the midst of a terrific storm they reach his house - a house not even the mysterious stranger has seen before as it has been left to him by his eccentric grandfather, and he has never previously had occasion to visit it. From the moment they drive up the grass-grown and rutted roadway to the deserted and abandoned looking old mansion strange things begin to happen. The reader is kept in constant suspense as to what weird and ghostly experience will next overtake the travellers, and every chapter ends on that note of suspense which makes it imperative to continue reading. (Publisher's blurb, Digger Tourists)