Marjery Louise Ellingham is an English writer, belonging to the “Golden Age of English Literature,” recognized as the “Queen of the Detective” alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh. Her best-known works are the novels by Ellingham about the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. This volume includes the fourth, fifth, and sixth novels of her main cycle.
A remote, microscopic kingdom of Averna, lost in the mountains, after an earthquake gains access to the Adriatic Sea—and, in addition, oil is discovered there. To ensure that such a tempting prize does not end up in the wrong hands, Albert Campion must step into the role of “the heir paladin” and obtain tangible evidence of Britain’s right to this land.