Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Mystery of Cloomber" is a suspenseful gothic novel that centers around mysterious general Heatherstone and his family. Every single year his paranoia rises around the autumn time when the fifths of October is near. Only his new neighbor John Fothergill West is curious enough to uncover the secret of such unusual behavior.