Mystery of Cloomber

Major Heatherstone lives like a hermit at Cloomber Hall, forbidding his children to venture beyond the estate grounds? He is cursed by the sound of a tolling bell, and each year on the fifth of October his paranoia peaks. The sudden appearance of three shipwrecked Buddhist monks leads to some explanations.
Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic thriller - set in his native Scotland, in a remote coastal village surrounded by dreary moors - offers a cautionary view of British colonialism in the form of a captivating story of murder and revenge.