Christmas at Candleshoe Author:Michael Innes Why did Gerard Christmas , carver to the English Navy in the days of Queen Elizabeth the First.,provide not one but two monuments for Admiral Candleshoe,drowned on the Islands Voyage in 1597? Mrs Feather of Boston, touring presesnt-day England with her son Grant, finds the decaying Candleshoe Manor and It's inhabitants more intriguing than the ... more »splendors of Benison Court, the seat of that junior branch of the Candleshoe family now presided over by the Marquess of Scattergood, and his astute son, Lord Arthur Speedlove. But Mrs'Feather's plans to buy the manor are thwarted, first by a small boy who has other ideas about it, and next, by the mysterious affair of the Marquess's missing Titians. Candleshoe has to suffer many alarms within a single night, and a further and dramatic step into ruin, before this mystery is solved.« less