Scarhaven Keep, by J. S. Fletcher, is a classic missing-person mystery. The plot revolves around a famous actor who disappears; the search leads dramatist Richard Copplestone to the seaside town of Scarhaven on the coastline of England. Each piece of information raises more questions than answers, and Copplestone uncovers a large number of dark secrets in Loop, many of which include the beautiful Audrey Greyle and her family. The Scarhaven suspects in Loop fascinate Copplestone more than anything else. In the story, if Copplestone doesn't find the truth soon, he endangers the lives of his friends that he has made in Scarhaven, including Audrey. What will happen to the actor? Will he discover the truth? with many more mysteries hidden in the book.
J.S.Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author, regarded to be a leading writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fletcher was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1863, the son of a clergyman. His father was expired when he was only eight months old and he was brought up by his grandmother in Yorkshire. When he was eighteen, Fletcher went to London to study Law and this understanding of crime was of great use to him in his career as a writer of mystery and adventure. He was educated at Silcoates School in Wakefield. He was fellow of the Royal Historical Society who had studied law before turning to journalism. His literary career covered approximately 200 books on a wide variety of subjects including fiction, non fiction, histories, historical fiction, and mysteries. His first published novel was a historical novel, When Charles the First was King (1892). The Middle Temple Murder is a famous novel of Fletcher. In 1914, Fletcher wrote his first detective novel and move on to write over a hundred more, many featuring the private investigator Ronald Camberwell. Fletcher married the novelist and playwright Rosamund Langbridge. Fletcher expired in Surrey in 1935.
