The Red Redmaynes

On the wild edge of Dartmoor, detective Mark Brendon is meant to be resting, but a chance encounter at the Foggintor quarries draws him into a case charged with romance, family secrets, and murder. While fishing and reflecting on crime, prison life, and his own lonely future, he meets a striking auburn-haired girl whose brief appearance haunts him. Soon afterward, he learns that Mr. Pendean, builder of the isolated bungalow nearby, has been murdered, and the moorland holiday becomes a grim investigation. Reluctantly persuaded by Jenny Pendean's desperate plea, Brendon turns from sport to duty and begins piecing together a troubled family history stretching back to the Redmayne fortune in Australia. Jenny's account leads into an earlier crisis in Italy, where she and her aunt live among vineyards, chestnuts, and silkworm sheds, shadowed by grief and old violence. There she and Assunta encounter Robert Redmayne, a red-haired stranger long believed missing, whose sudden reappearance fills the household with dread. As suspicion deepens and the past closes in, Brendon must uncover the truth before fear, madness, and murder claim another victim. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.