A tale of smuggling and mystery on the Dorset coast as told by John Trenchard, a boy obsessed with discovering the secret of Colonel 'Blackbeard' Mohune's hidden treasure.

One night, trapped in the Mohune family vault beneath the church, John finds a locket round the Colonel's neck which contains verses from the Psalms of David. What could it mean?

Elzevir Block, landlord of the local public house, who has lost his son in the contraband wars, befriends John and together they struggle to find the secret of Blackbeard's buried wealth. It is an adventure story full of action and misfortune spanning many years, two different countries and ending with a message to us all.

Collection	Narrator	Length
Victorian	Peter Joyce	8 hrs 40 mins

Media	Compact Disc	Audio Tape
Media Qty	8	5
Audio Format	CD-DA	Analogue
Book Code	VI-114CD	VI-114TA
ISBN	978 1 86015 004 3	978 1 86015 460 7
Price	£22.99	£17.99

John Meade Falkner (1858 - 1932) was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 swashbuckler, Moonfleet. Surprisingly for a successful novelist, he was also an extremely successful businessman, becoming chairman of the arms manufacturer Amstrong Whitworth during World War I.

He was born in Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire, spent much of his childhood in Dorchester and Weymouth and educated at Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in History in 1882. After Oxford, he went to Newcastle as tutor to the family of Sir Andrew Noble, who ran Armstrongs of Newcastle, one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world. Falkner followed him as chairman in 1916. In his business travels round the world, Falkner brought back antiquarian treasures of all kinds.

After his retirement he became Honorary Reader in Palaeography at Durham University, Falkner fell in love with Durham and, although he spent his later years travelling frequently, he called Durham his home.

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