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This epic novel begins with a mysterious girl taking a journey by train and a loving mother making a Faustian bargain with a gallant but nefarious figure. Author Richard Dowling spins an intricate mystery from a number of seemingly disparate elements: family dysfunction, clashes between social classes in nineteenth-century England, and a far-fetched scheme to create gold from a specific combination of less valuable elements and materials. Somehow, Dowling manages to pull it off, weaving a satisfying tale that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.
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Publisher
The Floating PressYear
2013eBook ISBN
9781776527632Edition
0Table of contents
- Title
- Contents
- Chapter I - Too Late
- Chapter II - Voices of the Unseen
- Chapter III - An Offer of Marriage
- Chapter IV - On the Wing
- Chapter V. - Mr. Leigh's Deputy
- Chapter VI - Oscar Leigh's Cave of Magic
- Chapter VII - The Negro Juggler
- Chapter VIII - The Juggler's Last Feat
- Chapter IX - "Only a Woman"
- Chapter X - Leigh Promises One Visit and Pays Another
- Chapter XI - Stranger than Miracle Gold
- Chapter XII - An Omen
- Chapter XIII - In Curzon Street
- Chapter XIV - Spirit and Flesh
- Chapter XV - A Substitute for Gold
- Chapter XVI - Red Herrings
- Chapter XVII - Dinner at Curzon Street
- Chapter XVIII - In the Dark
- Chapter XIX - Mrs. Hanbury
- Chapter XX - John Hanbury Alone
- Chapter XXI - Timmons's Tea and Leigh's Dinner
- Chapter XXII - A Quarter Past Twelve
- Chapter XXIII - An Early Visitor to Timmons
- Chapter XXIV - Gracedieu, Derbyshire
- Chapter XXV - Two of a Race
- Chapter XXVI - The End of Day
- Chapter XXVII - New Relatives
- Chapter XXVIII - Leigh at His Bench
- Chapter XXIX - Strong Smelling Salts
- Chapter XXX - Dora Ashton Alone
- Chapter XXXI - Winding Up the Clock
- Chapter XXXII - The Morning After
- Chapter XXXIII - Leigh Confides in Timmons
- Chapter XXXIV - The Wrong Man
- Chapter XXXV - The Ruins
- Chapter XXXVI - Open Confession
- Chapter XXXVII - Free
- Chapter XXXVIII - Doctor Shaw's Verdict
- Chapter XXXIX - Patient and Nurse
- Chapter XL - The Two Patients
- Chapter XLI - Fugitives
- Chapter XLII - The End
