The Ghost Breaker: A Novel Based Upon the Play

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The Ghost Breaker: A Novel Based Upon the Play

by Paul Dickey, Charles Goddard

EN·~4 hours

Chapters

Description

A weary night finds Warren Jarvis racing to a decaying Southern manor, summoned by his dying father’s desperate telegram. The once-grand house is shrouded in darkness, its halls echoing with the cries of a grieving servant and the faint, unsettling whisper of secrets long buried. As Warren confronts the frail colonel’s final words, he learns that his mother has just died and a double murder haunts the family, leaving him with a heavy legacy and a call for vengeance.

Determined to uncover the truth, Warren leans on his reputation as a “ghost breaker,” a daring adventurer accustomed to confronting the unseen. The eerie atmosphere, creaking floors, and lingering specters hint at a deeper mystery that will test his courage and wits. Listeners are drawn into a suspenseful blend of Southern gothic gloom and daring investigation, setting the stage for a race against time to reveal what—or who—still roams the mansion’s shadowed rooms.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~4 hours (248K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by K Nordquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2008-06-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the authors

Paul Dickey

Paul Dickey

1885–1933

A versatile early 20th-century stage and screen figure, he moved from vaudeville and Broadway into Hollywood writing. He is especially remembered for co-writing popular plays such as The Ghost Breaker and The Broken Wing.

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Charles Goddard

Charles Goddard

1879–1951

A newspaperman turned playwright and screenwriter, he helped shape some of the most popular stage melodramas and silent-film serials of the 1910s. He is especially remembered for writing thrilling adventures like The Perils of Pauline and for his long creative partnership with Paul Dickey.

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