Thornton Butterworth, London, 1934.  Hard cover, 285 pages.  Orange cloth blind ruled with black logo on front, black lettering on spine and embossed logo on rear.  Boards show edge and cover wear with some stains and marks, corners worn to boards, spine darkened with short tears to cloth.  Some age spotting on outer page block.  No jacket.  Front hinge a bit weak; store label on lower front paste-down; prior owner’s name and date in pencil on FEP; binding cracked in spots with all pages secure; pages tanned.  Mystery novel about an author who escapes distractions by going to a remote part of Florida and renting a house that was built by a pirate centuries before.  During his time there he learns that the pirate and all of his descendants have died mysterious deaths, and odd and menacing events occur including threats, murder attempts and manifestations of phantoms.