Black Roses

Black Roses is a 1929 novel by the British writer Francis Brett Young. Paul Ritchie an English painter is on a cruise around the Mediterranean, when the ship pulls into Naples. This sparks his memories of many decades before when he had lived in the city and found friendship with a fellow artist and love with their landlady. However all three were struck down during a cholera epidemic of which only Ritchie survived. Without ever setting foot back in the city, he is finally able to banish the ghosts that have haunted him all these years.