Something natural or supernatural enters the soul of Andrew Creel, a commonplace and disaffected young man, and drives him into a swift game where death is a probability on the one side and love only a possibility on the other. Creel plays it to the end: an end unlike the end that seemed so sure when dusk fell on the garden of that charming mansion with its sinister residents who have taken up residence in the titles Windon Manor after a bank failure wiped out their fortunes eight years earlier. The Darkness at Windon Manor is an entertaining 1923 crime novel written by Max Brand aka Frederick Faust. This moving swiftly tale of mistaken identity, a femme fatale, and a haul of stolen jewels.