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Author Marsh, Richard, 1857-1915

Title The beetle : a mystery / Richard Marsh
Published [Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2009

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Contents Chapter XV -- Mr Lessingham SpeaksChapter XVI -- Atherton's Magic Vapour; Chapter XVII -- Magic?-Or Miracle?; Chapter XVIII -- The Apotheosis of the Beetle; Chapter XIX -- The Lady Rages; Chapter XX -- A Heavy Father; Chapter XXI -- The Terror in the Night; Chapter XXII -- The Haunted Man; BOOK III -- The Terror by Night and the Terror by Day; Chapter XXIII -- The Way He Told Her; Chapter XXIV -- A Woman's View; Chapter XXV -- The Man in the Street; Chapter XXVI -- A Father's No; Chapter XXVII -- The Terror by Night; Chapter XXVIII -- The Strange Story of the Man in the Street
Chapter XXIX -- The House on the Road from the WorkhouseChapter XXX -- The Singular Behaviour of Mr Holt; Chapter XXXI -- The Terror by Day; BOOK IV -- In Pursuit; Chapter XXXII -- A New Client; Chapter XXXIII -- What Came of Looking Through a Lattice; Chapter XXXIV -- After Twenty Years; Chapter XXXV -- A Bringer of Tidings; Chapter XXXVI -- What the Tidings Were; Chapter XXXVII -- What was Hidden Under the Floor; Chapter XXXVIII -- The Rest of the Find; Chapter XXXIX -- Miss Louisa Coleman; Chapter XL -- What Miss Coleman Saw Through the Window; Chapter XLI -- The Constable, -His Clue, -And the Cab
Chapter XLII -- The Quarry DoublesChapter XLIII -- The Murder at Mrs 'enderson's; Chapter XLIV -- The Man who was Murdered; Chapter XLV -- All That Mrs 'enderson Knew; Chapter XLVI -- The Sudden Stopping; Chapter XLVII -- The Contents of the Third-Class Carriage; Chapter XLVIII -- The Conclusion of the Matter
Summary Richard Marsh's best-selling supernatural thriller The Beetle: A Mystery, was even more popular than Bram Stoker's Dracula when it was first released; both being published in the same year, 1897. Inflicting damage with his hypnotic and shape-shifting powers, a strange oriental figure shadows an English politician to London
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"First published in 1897"--Title page verso
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English
Subject British -- Egypt -- Fiction
Egyptologists -- Fiction
Politicians -- Fiction
Monsters -- Fiction
Revenge -- Fiction
FICTION -- Horror.
FICTION -- Occult & Supernatural.
Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
British
Egyptologists
Monsters
Politicians
Revenge
SUBJECT Egypt -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Fiction
London (England) -- Fiction
Subject Egypt
England -- London
Genre/Form Paranormal fiction
Horror fiction
Fiction
Occult fiction.
Horror fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Horror fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781775416111
1775416119
1776510127
9781776510122