Storm Music


Storm Music is a 1934 novel by the English author Dornford Yates, first serialised in Woman's Journal and Woman's Home Companion.

Plot

John Spencer witnesses the burial of a murdered servant. Spencer identifies the man's employer as Lady Helena, tells her of the murder, and becomes her lover. A criminal gang attempt to steal the gold bullion secreted in the cellar of her home, the castle at Yorick.

Background

This was another variation on Mercer’s old theme of a castle with treasure. Mercer’s autobiographer AJ Smithers, writing in 1982, suggested that “the faithful knew what they were buying without bothering to look at it".

Critical reception

Once again, the critics approved and the novel sold well.
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