The Lady of the Shroud. London: Rider, [1915. First Edition Thus. Publisher’s red cloth boards, upper cover decorated & lettered in blind, title in gilt to spine. Publishers’ catalogue Usual age-toning to contents pages, but overall a very nice copy of this fragile printing.

Stoker’s eleventh novel first published by William Heinemann in 1909.

The book is an epistolary novel, narrated in the first person via letters and diary extracts from various characters.

It tells the story of a young man (Rupert Sent Leger) who inherits enormous amount of money which he uses to help the people of a small country in the Balkans in their struggle against their more powerful neighbours.