
Young Englishwoman Kore Arabin has inherited a remote Greek island from her father. The superstitious islanders blame Kore for every mishap and natural disaster. Sir Edward Leithen and Vernon Milburne must save her before the islanders sacrifice her as a witch in the sacred ground...


Vernon Milbourne, orphaned as a child and haunted by a recurring dream, is a friend of the lawyer and MP, Sir Edward Leithen. An Aegean cruise takes them to the island of Plakos where Vernon is fascinated by the island's myths. Local superstitions turn to menace as Vernon's encounter...












This story was told me by Leithen, as we were returning rather late in the season from a shooting holiday in North Ontario. There were few passengers, the weather was a succession of snow blizzards and gales, and as we had the smoking-room for the most part to ourselves, we stoked...

This story was told me by Leithen, as we were returning rather late in the season from a shooting holiday in North Ontario. There were few passengers, the weather was a succession of snow blizzards and gales, and as we had the smoking-room for the most part to ourselves, we stoked...

This story was told me by Leithen, as we were returning rather late in the season from a shooting holiday in North Ontario. There were few passengers, the weather was a succession of snow blizzards and gales, and as we had the smoking-room for the most part to ourselves, we stoked...


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A third adventure for Sir Edward Leithen, in which Leithen befriends young Vernon Milburne, a man haunted by an annually recurring dream in which some dark and mysterious challenge moves year by year closer. After the war, as the culmination of Vernon's dream approaches, both...

A third adventure for Sir Edward Leithen, in which Leithen befriends young Vernon Milburne, a man haunted by an annually recurring dream in which some dark and mysterious challenge moves year by year closer. After the war, as the culmination of Vernon's dream approaches, both...


Moonlight bathes an ancient Greek island as shadows dance between ruined temples and olive groves, where the past is never truly past and every whisper could be a warning. Here, beneath the surface of everyday life, a web of mystery and romance entangles the unsuspecting, drawing...

"The Dancing Floor" is an evocative adventure thriller that blends early 20th-century suspense with the haunting echoes of ancient paganism. The novel follows Sir Edward Leithen as he travels to the remote Greek island of Plakos, where he becomes entangled in a dangerous web...

"The Dancing Floor" is an evocative adventure thriller that blends early 20th-century suspense with the haunting echoes of ancient paganism. The novel follows Sir Edward Leithen as he travels to the remote Greek island of Plakos, where he becomes entangled in a dangerous web...