
A sudden, almost theatrical visit from his aunt throws Thomas’s quiet morning into disarray. She arrives with a cryptic smile, explaining that a midnight excursion from Lostwithiel has left her with a fleeting fourteen‑hour window in London. Eager to make the most of the unexpected holiday, she proposes
Language
en
Duration
~6 hours (389K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books
Release date
2011-11-09
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1857–1915
Best known for the eerie bestseller The Beetle, this prolific late-Victorian writer mixed suspense, horror, and crime in stories that helped shape popular fiction at the turn of the 20th century. Writing under the name Richard Marsh, he reached a wide audience with fast-moving tales full of menace, mystery, and strange twists.
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