The Dangerous Game

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. On sunlit Corfu, Charles Seton Darville appears to be a glamorous, worldly English novelist, but beneath his easy charm lies a lonely, secretive man drawn into danger by his fascination with Joan Caborn. As he moves through the island's winter beauty, broods over a lost Alpine romance with Edris Temperley, and hides his true feelings, the novel reveals both his emotional isolation and his double life as a covert observer of international intrigue. When Joan's evasions about her husband and a cache of passionate letters expose a web of deceit, Darville's suspicions sharpen into action, and flirtation turns into a tense battle of wits. His quiet probing uncovers a larger conspiracy tied to sabotage, political unrest, and the threat of war, culminating in the dramatic destruction of a plot against the Forth Bridge. Elegant, suspenseful, and psychologically charged, this story blends romance, espionage, and patriotic vigilance against a backdrop of beauty shadowed by menace.