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When Perenna Holland, a young heiress, is forced to sell her family's home, she asks Roy Slingsby, an estate agent with a taste for the good life, to handle the sale. While preparing the house, Slingsby comes across a stamp album that hints at a story of its own. He follows the trail to where the stamps began, signing on to a ship that carries illicit cargo and travelling to an island on the edge of revolt. The stamps prove to be linked to a buried secret in Perenna's family, and Slingsby must decide how to tell her.

Hammond Innes, the British writer known for adventure novels built around sea voyages and dangerous journeys, wrote this as a story of suspense and action. Its themes center on inheritance, loyalty and the past catching up with the present.