The Yellow Face

A sinister yellow face stares down from a London poster, and no one can explain what it means. Not the crowds who stop to stare, not the authorities, and certainly not Claire Helmsley's guardian, Spencer Anstruther whose manner seems to echo the poster's hollow gaze. Claire is engaged to the ambitious Jack Masefield, but their secret romance is shadowed by Jack's growing certainty that her guardian harbors dark secrets. When a murder surfaces, linked to the mysterious figure behind the Nostalgo poster, Jack finds himself racing to save Claire from a man he cannot prove is dangerous. The period detail is impeccable, the unease palpable, and the question at the heart of the novel remains genuinely unsettling: what does that yellow face know about the people who look at it? For fans of turn-of-the-century sensation fiction and slow-burning Edwardian dread.