On the dog's collar his friend Jonathan Mansel finds an inscription telling of treasure hidden within a well in the Austrian castle of Wagensburg.

Chandos, Mansel, and their friend George Hanbury set out to recover it, accompanied by their servants, Bell, Rowley and Carson.

Blind Corner was Mercer's first foray into the thriller genre, having found himself bored with writing romantic fiction.

Along with the other seven Yates books originally published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton, Blind Corner was re-issued by Ward Lock during World War II.

[3] In his 1982 biography of Dornford Yates, AJ Smithers suggested that Blind Corner was the best adventure story of the inter-war years.