James Hazell Mystery Series / The Bornless Keeper / P. B. Yuill

Situated just off of the coastal resort of Mundham is Peacock Island, home to the rich eccentric and reclusive Lady Bennett who will allow almost nobody else to set foot on the place. Not that there is anyone much interested in doing so anyway. Local folklore maintains that the island is home to a terrifying guardian called The Bornless Keeper who delights in “pointing the Road to Hell” to anyone who trespasses there. And when a local fisherman does make the mistake of landing there and has his throat slashed and his eyes gouged out for his trouble, and an investigating policeman then has his head stoved in, it begins to seem as if there may be more to the legend than ignorant superstition.