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"A complete handle, pleasantly ludic, to be read with a large grin in your face throughout."—Nicholas Lezard, Parent AT THE CONCLUSION-OF-LONDON-PERIOD soiree, the small Hungarian student-dilettante Janos Batky is launched for the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who's the topic of odd whispers. Asked for the family couch, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky gets a strange telephone-call warning him to not proceed. But he does, and sees herself in a weird world of love and mysticism, animal testing, and prepared homicide. His mission to resolve the main secret requires him along unusual byways- factory cellars and aged libraries, Welsh hills and subterranean tombs.