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1 online resource (1 electronic document (630 pages)) |
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 |
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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 |
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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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Archived by the National Library of New Zealand |
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Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 13, 2011) |
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"First published in 1897"--Title page verso |
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Novel |
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Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional. Nz |
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British -- Egypt -- Fiction
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Egyptologists -- Fiction
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Politicians -- Fiction
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Monsters -- Fiction
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Revenge -- Fiction
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FICTION -- Horror.
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FICTION -- Occult & Supernatural.
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Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
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British
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Egyptologists
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Monsters
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Politicians
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Revenge
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Egypt -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Fiction
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London (England) -- Fiction
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Egypt
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England -- London
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Genre/Form |
Paranormal fiction
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Horror fiction
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Fiction
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Occult fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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Paranormal fiction.
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Horror fiction.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781775416111 |
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1775416119 |
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1776510127 |
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9781776510122 |
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