Other editions of book The Monstrous Leathern Man

Resentful of the minor role he plays in the life of his important, famous Ad father, fourteen-year-old Jonathan runs away while traveling with his parents. He has heard a story that piques his interest and heads for an old house that was once an inn. Welcomed by the elderly proprietor, Jon signs apprentice papers when he is promised that he will inherit the property. He becomes embroiled in old Peter's feud with the neighbors and discovers the answer to the mystery that first brought him to Happiness House. The beginning of the story is not very convincing, the end even less so, but the writing has pace and color, the atmosphere of eerie isolation is vividly evoked, and the story has suspense.