When daring journalist Sir Percival Harris gets wind of a curious crime in a sleepy English town, he ropes in his old friend Professor Ernest Drabble to help him investigate.
The crime is a grave robbery, and as Drabble and Harris pry deeper, events take a mysterious turn when a theft at the British Museum is soon followed by a murder.
The friends are soon involved in a tumultuous quest that takes them from the genteel streets of London to the wide plains of the United States. What exactly is at stake is not altogether clear – but if they don’t act soon, the outcome could be a bloody conflict, one that will cross borders, continents and oceans…
Meanwhile, can Drabble and Harris’s friendship – which has endured near-death experiences on several continents, not to mention a boarding school duel – survive a crisis in the shape of the beautiful and enigmatic Dr Charlotte Moore?
Ghosts of the West by Alec Marsh, the third in his Drabble and Harris series, is published on 9 September, 2021.
Alec’s feature on one of the real-life characters behind his book will be in Historia soon.
He’s written about another inspiring figure, one whose story underpins his previous Drabble and Harris book, Enemy of the Raj, in It’s time to remember Ganga Singh: maharaja, reformer, statesman.
