Chandos, 22 years old and eager for any alternative to joining his uncle's firm in London, learns of a treasure hidden in an Austrian castle and resolves to find it. But he faces some dangerous enemies! <P>"Mr. Yates's narrative style is an unfailing delight." –The Bookman<P> Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the English novelist Cecil William Mercer (1885–1960), whose novels and short stories, some humorous (the Berry books), some thrillers (the Chandos books), were best-sellers in the period between the First and Second World Wars.
