Moonfleet

"Moonfleet" by John Falkner is a daring tale of Dorset smugglers in the eighteenth century. Fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is expelled from his aunt Jane's home. He moves to live in a local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son was tragically killed by customs officers. Unofficially adopted by Block, John is set to discover the reasons behind the nighttime commotion in the cemetery, the lost treasure of Black Beard, and unravel the secret of Elzevir Block.