This volume recounts tales of St. Ives and Prussia Cove
smugglers, a corrupted election (when a wealthy woman took advantage of an error to vote) and a developing friendship between a wealthy man and a fisherman due to the activities of the fisherman's granddaughter;
Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best
friend, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q') was the pre-eminent Cornish writer of Victorian & Edwardian times and founder of the Cambridge University school of English Literature.
Q is of particular interest since his fiction was very often based on factual events long passed from memory.
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