An absolute treat, deliciously ludic, to be read with a big smile on your face
throughout.?Nicholas Lezard, Guardian AT THE END-OF-LONDON-SEASON soiree, the
young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of
Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to
the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a mysterious
phone-call warning him not to go. But he does, and finds himself in a bizarre
world of mysticism and romance, animal experimentation, and planned murder. His
quest to solve the central mystery takes him down strange byways-old libraries
and warehouse cellars, Welsh mountains and underground tombs.