The Haunted Martyr (Denton 4)

This is a holiday Denton will never forget…

Denton has brought his lover, Janet Stryker, to Naples to recover from a near-fatal attack of typhus. While in Italy, Denton intends to write a light travel book on spiritualism and the supernatural on Naples.

But when he tries to rent a newly renovated palazzo and is told by the agent that he can rent it for free if he dares first spend a night there, he knows the place must be haunted. He and Janet duly see an apparition of a tall, long-armed woman – a vision that inevitably leads to the discovery of a real body, to the story of an eccentric English peer with a terrible secrets and the involvement of the Camorra – the Neopolitan mafia. This is one holiday Denton will not forget.