Author: COLLIER, G.K.
Title: The Golden Web
Description: London, Robert Hale. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709058047). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel set against a backdrop of England's South Coast with its fascinating history of bold and daring smugglers. After the end of the Peninsular War, Wellington's army is disbanded and a young officer of Hussars, Major Alexander Lacey, returns to England, to his native Sussex, to take up residence at Blakestone House. In bygone days the house was a grand and ancient mansion but now is a blackened ruin devastated by an inexplicable fire and also the scene of an untimely death. His sudden and unexpected arrival is greeted with immediate suspicion and deep hostility from his near neighbours. NOT EX LIB D4F. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Historical Fiction, Peninsular War, Wellington, Sussex , Smuggling 0709058047


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