Portrait of Saskia

Kenneth Leslie, needing money to start a new life in Canada after a broken engagement, answers an advertisement in the Daily Clarion - Retired Army Officer offers a large sum of money to a Young Man who wants Adventure. Must be of good appearance and free from dependants - and finds more than he dreamed of: fishing, art, family skulduggery, rogues, thieves and fisticuffs, friendship - and romance. Also included are four short stories, Moira, The Mulberry Coach, The Secret of the Black Rock, The Murder of Alma Atherton, and a novella, Where the Gentian Blooms. Previously unpublished, this is one of the manuscripts recently 'Found in the Attic' by the author's grand-daughter. It was probably written in the late 1920s, and foreshadows her later romances and family stories with that little humorous twist of something extra