The Shrouded Walls by Susan Howatch is listed in the gothic tale genre and it has all the elements: a love interest, an illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Englishman, a hero and heir to a fortune, a desolate manor house and a scene of murder and intrigue. Some have compared it to Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca.
Although Susan Howatch began writing fifty years ago, her historical novels remain enticing. The Shrouded Walls is one of her early novels.
