DREAM GOLD

by David Severn ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 12, 1952

Full blown British mystery and ghostly adventure by one of its ablest exponents. The story, written in the first person, has its fourteen year old hero, Peter Manning, make a strange visit to the Cornish sea coast estate of a morose and secretive orphaned school chum, Guy Trelawney, for whom he has a strange attraction. The mystery of which even Guy himself in uncertain, deepens when the two boys have simultaneous dreams about escaping from a tropical Island. The ship that must rescue them is the Bold Venture which lies, a three hundred year old wreck, at the foot of the Trelawney mansion. A family curse on a treasure of gold which presumably lien with the Bold Venture, sets Guy unsuccessfully after Peter's blood when the discovery of a distant kinship between them reveals the necessity for one or the other to be the last in line. The glooms and horrors of the Cornwall coast are exploited to advantage in a well knit tale.

Pub Date: Sept. 12, 1952

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1952

Categories: FICTION