- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
The Silent House (1899) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, The Silent House is a gripping novel with an atmospheric intensity and tightly wound mystery worthy of the best of Victorian fiction. From an author whose work inspired Arthur Conan Doyle, The Silent House is a story of murder with a haunting, original conclusion.
At twenty-five, Lucian Denzil is at the very beginning of his career as a barrister. Settling into a serious life, he rents a modest home in Pimlico on Geneva Square. Although he endeavors to focus and live only for his work, Lucian cannot help but notice the stories told by neighbors and servants about No. 13, a home near his own on the square. Decades prior to his settling in Pimlico, No. 13, now known as "the silent house, " was the site of a gruesome murder. Over the years, it had gone unoccupied and fallen into general disrepair. In 1895, a quiet, reclusive man named Mark Berwin moved into the home, where he lived alone, and to which he could not infrequently be seen returning in the dead of night in a drunken, disturbed state. One night, while walking through Geneva Square to his own home, Lucian encounters Berwin who, intoxicated and confused, requires the young man's assistance. Helping the older gentleman make his way to No. 13, Lucian feels a growing unease, a sense of something that will lead him not only to the heart of a local mystery, but into the depths of the silent house itself.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Fergus Hume's The Silent House is a classic of English mystery and detective fiction reimagined for modern readers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- I. The Tenant of the Silent House
- II. Shadows on the Blind
- III. An Unsatisfactory Explanation
- IV. Mrs. Kebby’s Discovery
- V. The Talk of the Town
- VI. Mrs. Vrain’s Story
- VII. The Assurance Money
- VIII. Diana Vrain
- IX. A Marriage That Was a Failure
- X. The Parti-Coloured Ribbon
- XI. Further Discoveries
- XII. The Veil and Its Owner
- XIII. Gossip
- XIV. The House in Jersey Street
- XV. Rhoda and the Cloak
- XVI. Mrs. Vrain at Bay
- XVII. A Denial
- XVIII. Who Bought the Cloak?
- XIX. The Defence of Count Ferruci
- XX. A New Development
- XXI. Two Months Pass
- XXII. At Berwin Manor
- XXIII. A Startling Theory
- XXIV. Lucian Is Surprised
- XXV. A Dark Plot
- XXVI. The Other Man’s Wife
- XXVII. A Confession
- XXVIII. The Name of the Assassin
- XXIX. Link Sets a Trap
- XXX. Who Fell into the Trap?
- XXXI. A Strange Confession
- XXXII. The Confession (continued)
- XXXIII. What Rhoda Had to Say
- XXXIV. The End of It All
- A Note About the Author
- A Note from the Publisher