The Tickencote Treasure

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by James McNeill Whistler, James 'Clock' Shaw and Petrus van Schendel. A doctor buys an old schooner, finds parchments and seven dead men aboard, and follows a sixteenth-century secret into a Rutland village where somebody is already waiting for him. William Le Queux wrote spy scares and treasure hunts by the hundred and claimed, not always truthfu...