Turn this book into a movie as soon as possible! All that running around in snow! All that wandering through hail and pounding rain seeking a transparent/disappearing beautiful young woman! A bicycle! A bizarre suicide! Characters you like and characters you hate! Have I left anything out? A spooky house by the sea! You'll be up to your eyeballs in gothic horror.
There's some great dialogue amongst the characters. Inspector Cutter of Scotland Yard has some of the best. When a witness to the bizarre above-mentioned suicide asks if his answers have been satisfactory, the Inspector tells him that his landlady served him a poached egg that looked like the eye of a rabid dog that had been dead for two days and that breakfast had been more satisfying than those answers.
It would make a good movie! That dialogue.
If you like gothic, ghosts, icky people, strange deaths, rain, mysteries, and bicycles, you'll enjoy The House on Vesper Sands and might even make a movie of it.
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