Dark House

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Detective Fiction

Authors: George Manville Fenn In Year : 1885

Book Language: English

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01 – Number 9A, Albemarle Square
02 – The Dead Mans Relatives
03 – One Guardian Of The Treasure
04 – The Lawyers Tin Box
05 – The Reading Of The Will
06 – A Fit Of Generosity
07 – Lying In State
08 – The Horrors Of A Morn
09 – Another Discovery
10 – Why, Doctor, Doctor He’s Dead!
11 – The Treasure
12 – The End Of The Instructions
13 – The Young Doctor
14 – A Clever Diplomatist
15 – In The Dark
16 – You Here
17 – The Tenth Night
18 – Nocturnal Proceedings
19 – Birds Of Prey
20 – Asleep Or Awake?
21 – What The Sound Was
22 – A Blank Adventure
23 – Waiting For Breakfast
24 – Doctor And Nurse
25 – High Words
26 – Capels Nurses
27 – An Encounter
28 – Mr Preenhams Visitor
29 – The Party Breaks Up
30 – Where The Treasure Lay

An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house. Most of the people at the reading of the will did not know the deceased in person, but had received kindnesses from him, for instance by the payment of school and university fees. The principal beneficiary, a great-nephew, also did not know him. The only two people who really knew him were the old lawyer who dealt with his affairs, and an old Indian servant. Yet when the will had been read, and they all went to where the treasure--gold, jewels and bank-notes--were supposed to be hidden, nothing could be found.

There are an unusual number of deaths, by murder and in self-defence, as the story unfolds, and we are left in total suspense until the very end of the very last chapter. The person who works out where the treasure must be, and how it got there, does not come on the scene until almost the last chapter, and even then he has to go on business to America before he can come in and explain his theory, which proves to be right. (Summary by Gutenberg)