Mary Costelloe contacts David Norton, an experimental psychologist, out of the blue, about Malpas - the vast, crumbling house in Munster she has inherited. He agrees to visit, only to find himself in a dark story of madness and suicide that stretches back 100 years.

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Experimental psychologist David Walker once had an affair with his pupil Helen Costelloe. Two years later, the newly-widowed Helen writes to him asking for help. But once he arrives at the house she has inherited, he finds a family history that includes a madness that stretches back 100 years.

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Victoria and Guy look on the restoration of their garden, established by Guy's ancestor Joshua Jones in 1847, as a challenge. But Victoria soon begins to realize what else the overgrown terraces are hiding, and she begins to unravel a tormented family history that reaches back five generations.

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April 1903, Charlie Webb is a professional racing yacht skipper, a working class hero of all the picture papers. When the Duke of Leominster invites him to a secret meeting in London with a mysterious gentleman named Carruthers, he finds himself searching for a Napoleonic wreck loaded with bullion.