The Prisoner in the Opal

By: A E W Mason

A retired tea-broker with a passion for fine claret looks forward to his annual autumn tour of the Bordeaux vineyards. But a chance conversation in a London drawing-room plunges him into strange happenings. A young American woman begs him to watch over her friend, the heiress of a rose-pink ch teau above the river, who has broken off her engagement without explanation. The young woman swears that every letter from the ch teau reveals shifting, half-formed faces beneath the ink.

Reluctantly drawn into the affair, the traveller arrives for the wine-vintage celebrations to find a small, uneasy party and a celebrated French detective on holiday nearby. As strange warnings multiply, the brittle opal of the ordinary world begins to crack, and a dark, occult-tinged conspiracy emerges from the shadows of the France's wine country.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 166767028X
• ISBN13: 9781667670287
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"