A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. Bullion! is the ultimate locked-room mystery. A ship transporting gold bullion is travelling from Melbourne to London. The gold is packed into chests and stored in a separate locked and sealed room. But mysterious whispering is heard in the night and chests seemingly disappear and return leading the crew to think they’re losing their minds. Can the second mate get to the bottom of the mystery?
Af John Buchan, Gertrude Atherton, H.G. Wells, Hume Nisbet, Algernon Blackwood, Charles Dickens, Jan Neruda, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Rhodes James, Arthur Machen, Edith Nesbit, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sax Rohmer, H.P. Lovecraft, Gilbert Parke, Sabine Baring-Gould, Robert Robert E. Howard