The Beetle
by Richard Marsh
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About this eBook
- Author
- Marsh, Richard, 1857-1915
- Title
- The Beetle: A Mystery
- Credits
- Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Champnell, Augustus (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 5164
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5164
- Release Date
- February 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE BEETLE A MYSTERY
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.BOOK I. The House with the Open Window — CHAPTER I. OUTSIDE — CHAPTER II. INSIDE — CHAPTER III. THE MAN IN THE BED — CHAPTER IV. A LONELY VIGIL — CHAPTER V. AN INSTRUCTION TO COMMIT BURGLARY — CHAPTER VI. A SINGULAR FELONY — CHAPTER VII. THE GREAT PAUL LESSINGHAM — CHAPTER VIII. THE MAN IN THE STREET — CHAPTER IX. THE CONTENTS OF THE PACKET
- 4.BOOK II. The Haunted Man — CHAPTER X. REJECTED — CHAPTER XI. A MIDNIGHT EPISODE — CHAPTER XII. A MORNING VISITOR — CHAPTER XIII. THE PICTURE — CHAPTER XIV. THE DUCHESS’ BALL — CHAPTER XV. MR LESSINGHAM SPEAKS — CHAPTER 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
- 5.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 WORKHOUSE — CHAPTER XXX. THE SINGULAR BEHAVIOUR OF MR HOLT — CHAPTER XXXI. THE TERROR BY DAY
- 6.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 DOUBLES — CHAPTER 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
- 7.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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