Chandos, 22 years old and eager for any alternative to joining his uncles firm in London, learns of a treasure hidden in an Austrian castle and resolves to find it. But he faces some dangerous enemies! <P>Mr. Yatess narrative style is an unfailing delight. --The Bookman<P>Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the English novelist Cecil William Mercer (1885 1960), whose novels and short stories, some humorous (the Berry books), some thrillers (the Chandos books), were best-sellers in the period between the First and Second World Wars.