The Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn [Mass Market Paperback]

Russell Thorndike (Author)

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• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Arrow 742 (1966)
• ASIN: B001MW7FSU
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Legacy that became a Liability, October 15, 2007

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This review is from: The Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn (Paperback)

This is the fifth in chronological sequence of Russell Thorndike's seven highly entertaining novels about the Reverend Doctor Syn, the apparently harmless vicar of Dymchurch in Kent who led a secret life as a pirate and smuggler.

The full series is:

1) Doctor Syn on the High Seas
2) Doctor Syn Returns
3) The Further adventures of Doctor Syn
4) The Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn
5) The Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn
6) The Shadow of Doctor Syn
7) Doctor Syn

A Welsh stranger comes to Dymchurch in Kent to advise the vicar, Doctor Syn, that they they are the last two survivors of a Tontine, and therefore joint heirs to an enormous fortune.

What neither of them know is that an unscrupulous villain is planning to murder Doctor Syn and marry the Welshman's pretty niece so as to get the whole fortune for himself. But the would-be-murderer does not realise that the apparently harmless clergyman has a few secrets of his own ...