- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Headline Feature; New edition edition (11 Mar 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747260052
- ISBN-13: 978-0747260059
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 300,339 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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April 1903, Charlie Webb is a professional racing yacht skipper, a working class hero of all the picture papers. When the Duke of Leominster invites him to a secret meeting in London with a mysterious gentleman named Carruthers, he finds himself searching for a Napoleonic wreck loaded with bullion.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pre-World War I intrigue and adventure,
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This review is from: The Shadow in the Sands (Mariner's Library Fiction Classics) (Paperback)
Sam Llewellyn's latest sailing mystery novel is a departure from others he has written. Set in the early 1900 in England - and off the coast of Germany- it is written as the memiors of a young man who captains the racing yachts for "gentleman." Charlie Webb, orphaned before his teens, starts out fishing for a living and can not understand people who "sail for pleasure" but, for extra money, he agrees to captain a gentleman's yacht. His talent for winning earns him a share of the prize money, and a nautical encounter with the Kaiser. A few years later, that encounter sets up an unwanted assignment by a mysterious Duke, a man Charlie hasn't trusted for a day. This voyage is full of twists and turns, literally and figuratively, right to the last. Witten in the first person, using the speech and slang of the early 1900's, the story is still fast-paced and full of sailing detail, but at times, difficult to follow. English readers will have less objection to the prose, and Llewellyn fans will find it worth the effort.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Clever and convincing follow-up to an old favourite.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Shadow in the Sands (Paperback)
Anyone who loved Erskine Childers "Riddle of the Sands" will read this with delight because it picks up the story where Childers left it and runs with it. What is especially clever is that it brings in fresh and utterly characters in the centre of the story to take the narrative forward but gives you just enough of Childers' own characters and story to satisfy. right up to the last minute you're left guessing at how it can possibly end. Sam Llewellyn writes brilliantly about the sea.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Shadow in the Sands (Paperback)
First..a great thriller. Second..very clever in the way it follows-up the Childers story. Third..brilliant use of the narrative voice of the main character. Llewellyn is a terrific writer but this one is him at the top of his form,
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