Thomas Doyle

Pantheon Thomas Doyle

Charles Fellows, mountaineer, national hero, and first class bastard isfound murdered in the sea near his sailing yacht on the Cornish coast. EvanBriscoe is dispatched by Scotland Yard to investigate and finds motivesa-plenty. Fellows was disliked, if not hated by the local populace atleast by the male population. Or was the root of the crime in the "Pantheon of Heroes" of which Fellows isa revered member? Sir Tony Castlefort, the only human to climb higher thanCharles Fellows, and other members of the Pantheon insist his death wasmisadventure. As Briscoe ventures into the Pantheon he finds the gods thatdwell there have feet of clay. Only Celia Fellows, Charles' lonely and unhappy sister, maintains that herbrother was murdered. To his discomfort, Briscoe finds himself attracted tothis strong-minded woman. Celia discovers that all heroes do not dwell inthe Pantheon and Briscoe finds something else something far morepersonal something he thought he'd never find