Originally published: 1930
Publisher/Year: Independently published/2026
Type: Paperback
Pages: 279
Dimensions: 5” x 8”  
Weight: 325g
Condition: Brand New

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Book Description:

Set in an England poised between faith and doubt, this novel unfolds as a murder investigation slowly opens onto far deeper questions of power, sacrifice, and the nature of belief. What begins as a conventional crime—an apparently motiveless killing linked to a mysterious chalice—draws an inspector, a troubled aristocratic household, and a country parish into an unseen conflict where spiritual forces are as real and dangerous as human ones.

At the centre of the story stands the Graal (Grail) itself, an ancient vessel whose presence provokes obsession, temptation, and terror. Around it gather figures drawn from every register of society: a rational policeman struggling to interpret the irrational; a cynical yet vulnerable young father haunted by despair; a child whose innocence proves decisive; and an Archdeacon whose quiet obedience becomes the novel’s moral axis. Opposing them is a charismatic will bent on domination, convinced that spiritual power exists to be seized and used.

Blending detective fiction, theological meditation, and supernatural drama, the novel explores the limits of reason, the misuse of desire, and the meaning of sacrifice. Its climax moves beyond crime into revelation, offering a vision of judgment, mercy, and renewal that transforms both the characters and the world they inhabit. At once unsettling and luminous, this is a work in which metaphysical conflict is rendered with narrative precision, and where the final victory belongs not to force or cleverness, but to humility and grace.