The Black Abbot

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Philip de László, Marianne North and John Atkinson Grimshaw. The Chelford estate has a legend — a black-robed monk who walks at night — and a treasure that several people would prefer to find first. Wallace was illegitimate, raised by a Billingsgate fish porter, left school at twelve, and wrote so fast that a joke went round that a caller was to...