Old Captain Freeland Blair of East Orham anxiously awaits the arrival of The Pride of the Fleet, but refuses to say why. When the ship is wrecked, the captain does not long survive the tragic news, leaving behind strange notes and an attic full of foreign wares that entrench themselves as a family mystery. Housekeeper Iantha Hallett was there from the beginning, watching over the old Blair House as family members come and go. The mystery develops over time until a surreptitious nighttime intruder inspires one last hunt for the answer to the puzzle.

Blair's Attic was published in 1929.