Description
This is the most thrilling story of Derry Lighthouse of the rocky coast of Cornwall, which is reputed of be haunted. Two lightkeepers have already met their death in a mysterious manner, and another is mad. The neighbourhood is charged with fear and superstition.
Sam Higgins, a Cockney, garrulous, cheerful and courageous, is sent to Derry as emergency lightkeeper, where, after many adventures, he and certain others succeed in revealing the machinations of a master croock. There is something reminiscent of Herbert Jenkin's immortal Blinde about Sam, and he will go straight to reader's heart.