Shadow of the Rope

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Crime & Mystery Fiction

Authors: E. W. Hornung In Year : 1902

Book Language: English

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Chapter I - The End of Their Life
Chapter II - The Case for the Crown
Chapter III - Name and Nature
Chapter IV - The Man in the Train
Chapter V - The Man in the Street
Chapter VI - A Peripatetic Providence
Chapter VII - A Morning Call
Chapter VIII - The Dove and the Serpent
Chapter IX - A Change of Scene
Chapter X - A Slight Discrepancy
Chapter XI - Another New Friend
Chapter XII - Episode of the Invisible Visitor
Chapter XIII - The Australian Room
Chapter XIV - Battle Royal
Chapter XV - A Chance Encounter
Chapter XVI - A Match for Mrs. Venables
Chapter XVII - Friends in Need
Chapter XVIII - "They Which Were Bidden"
Chapter XIX - Rachel's Champion
Chapter XX - More Haste
Chapter XXI - Worse Speed
Chapter XXII - The Darkest Hour
Chapter XXIII - Dawn
Chapter XXIV - One Who Was Not Bidden
Chapter XXV - A Point to Langholm
Chapter XXVI - A Cardinal Point
Chapter XXVII - The Whole Truth
Chapter XXVIII - In the Matter of A Motive

Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and public opinion vehemently and almost universally against her. When the jury astonishes and outrages the world with a verdict of Not Guilty, Rachel quickly finds herself in need of protection. It comes in the form of a surprising offer of marriage from a mysterious stranger who has sat through every day of her trial. The marriage to this intriguing stranger, Mr. Steel, is by mutual agreement to be a platonic one, the only condition of which is that neither is ever to question the other about the past. The two travel to Steel’s remote country estate, where Rachel accidentally discovers that her second husband’s past was somehow intertwined with her first husband’s history – but how, exactly, and why he determined to marry her, Steel will not say. As her doubts about her husband increase, local busybodies threaten to unearth Rachel’s own past. And that is the least of the secrets that comes to light as this entertaining mystery unfolds. (Introduction by Christine Dufour)