The Datchet Diamonds

Richard Marsh

• Publisher: White Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781473323766
• eBook ISBN: 9781473398542
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

This early work by Richard Marsh was originally published in 1898 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. A cautionary tale of Cyril Paxton - a gambler who has lost his last bet. Accidentally finding himself with of a quarter million pounds worth of stolen diamonds, the story quickly leads to his involvement with Scotland Yard's finest. Richard Bernard Heldmann - better-known by his pseudonym, Richard Marsh - was born in England in 1857. A best-selling and prolific author of the late 19th century and the Edwardian period, Marsh is best known now for his supernatural thriller novel The Beetle, which was published the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897). Richard Marsh was a versatile writer of ghost stories, horror novels, and romances, as well as thrilling mysteries like The Datchet Diamonds - which is considered to be one of the earliest modern detective novels.

Table of contents

• THE DATCHET DIAMONDS
• Richard Marsh
• CHAPTER I. TWO MEN AND A MAID
• CHAPTER II. OVERHEARD IN THE TRAIN
• CHAPTER III THE DIAMONDS
• CHAPTER IV. MISS WENTWORTH’S RUDENESS
• CHAPTER V. IN THE BODEGA
• CHAPTER VI. THE ADVENTURES OF A NIGHT
• CHAPTER VII. THE DATCHET DIAMONDS ARE PLACED IN SAFE CUSTODY
• CHAPTER VIII. IN THE MOMENT OF HIS SUCCESS
• CHAPTER IX. A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE
• CHAPTER X. CYRIL’S FRIEND
• CHAPTER XI. JOHN IRELAND’S WARRANT
• CHAPTER XII. A WOMAN ROUSED
• CHAPTER XIII. THE DETECTIVE AND THE LADY
• CHAPTER XIV. AMONG THIEVES
• CHAPTER XV. PUT TO THE QUESTION
• CHAPTER XVI. A MODERN INSTANCE OF AN ANCIENT PRACTICE
• CHAPTER XVII. THE MOST DANGEROUS FOR OF ALL
• CHAPTER XVIII. THE LAST OF THE DATCHET DIAMONDS
• CHAPTER XIX. A WOMAN’S LOGIC