Adventure | Dead Man’s Rock by Arthur Quiller-Couch | Best story read aloud | Part 02

Adventure | Dead Man’s Rock by Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental “Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900“ (later extended to 1918), and for his literary criticism. He guided the taste of many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84 Charing Cross Road, its sequel, Q’s Legacy, and the putatively fictional Horace Rumpole via John Mortimer, his literary amanuensis. Synopsis Dead Man’s Rock has indeed brought many a man to his death in ship wreck. It has taken another ship and left death and a mystery. A boy grows up with the death of his father at the rock. But, his father’s death was not due to the wreck, but murder. The boy carries the hate for the murder into adult life. That hate continues to wreck the lives of those near to him, even the girl he loves. Does the rock hold, yet, more evil and mystery? D