The Smuggler of King's Cove; or, The Old Chapel Mystery

The narrative follows Percy Maitland, a young man connected to a coastal community of smugglers centered around an elderly earl and his ward Cordelia. Over several years he confronts shifting loyalties and rivalries among local figures such as Ralph Tryon while drawn into a puzzling sequence of events involving an old chapel, a monk’s crypt, and hidden caverns. Strange apparitions, daring explorations, a violent attempt to suppress discovery, and successive revelations and confessions gradually expose long-buried secrets, force moral choices, and realign power within the community as the central mystery is resolved.