Read this story with interest as not my normal choice. Kept me involved all the way. Recommended.

This book is one of the last things I ever expected. When I read the description, I was anticipating something much more along the lines of a Woman in White urban legend. What I got is so much better! I loved seeing the development of John Neville and how he came to figure things out over the course of his adventures. At times, it felt like I was putting together a puzzle, more than I was reading, as I tried to figure out what was going to happen next and how it all fit together. What a fun read! This is one to keep on the shelves and share with the family.

Ernest Dudley was a British writer and playwright, best known for his Dr. Morelle Detective books and the succeeding BBC radio show based on his books. Although he wrote a number of novels, his acclaim seems not to have crossed the Pond. Leatherface is an unusual novel and, if it seems to have been written in another time period, that's because Dudley patterned it's narrative after older 1800's novels. Indeed, Leatherface is set in the mid to late 1700's when highwaymen in England would appear in the dead of night and rob stagecoaches, much as outlaws in America's Great Plains and Old West would do a century later. The narrator as is often the case in theses older novels is a young innocent off on his first adventure all alone and finds himself caught in a web of intrigue. It's an interesting read and succeeds in setting the time period very well even if plotwise it's not always breathtaking.

Leatherface by Ernest dudley.
The ghost of john neville known as leatherface, still haunts the road where he was hanged. This is the afterlife of john neville.
A good read although slow in places I managed to read it. Just put it down for a bit. It wasn't what I'd thought it would be. 3*.