Christmas at Candleshoe
(1953)
Blurb:
My review:
An interesting little Innes, purely of the adventure thriller sort. A young American helps a boy and his friends to defend Candleshoe Manor from a gang of art thieves, none of whom ever so much as talk or are seen. There is extremely little plot to cover 200-odd pages, yet the book doesn’t feel padded or trivial: a testament to Innes’s gift of storytelling that he can keep the reader thoroughly engrossed without plot twists, action, excitement or detection.