The Beetle

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Penguin UK, Oct 2, 2008 - Fiction - 352 pages

It changes its shape at will. It compels others to do its bidding. It inspires terror in all who look on it ...

Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of Westminster, but when ‘The Beetle’ arrives from Egypt to hunt him down, the dark and gruesome secret that haunts him is dragged into the light. Bent on revenge for a crime committed against the disciples of Isis, the Beetle terrorizes its victims and will stop at nothing until it has satisfaction.

Six people’s worlds are turned upside down by murder, mesmerism and human sacrifice as they struggle to save their sanity and above all, their lives.

 

Contents

Outside
Inside
The Man in the
A Lonely Vigil
An Instruction to Commit Burglary
A Singular Felony
The Great Paul Lessingham
The Man in the Street
A Fathers
The Terror by Night
The Strange Story of the Man in the Street
The House on the Road from the Workhouse
The Singular Behaviour of Mr Holt
The Terror by
IN PURSUIT
A New Client

The Contents of the Packet
THE HAUNTED
Rejected
A Midnight Episode
A Morning Visitor
The Picture
The Duchesss Ball
Mr Lessingham Speaks
Athertons Magic Vapour
Magic or Miracle?
The Apotheosis of the Beetle
The Lady Rages
A Heavy Father
The Terror in the Night
The Haunted
THE TERROR BY NIGHT AND THE TERROR BY
The Way He Told
A Womans View
What Came of Looking through a Lattice
After Twenty Years
A Bringer of Tidings
What the Tidings Were
What Was Hidden Under the Floor
The Rest of the Find
Miss Louisa Coleman
What Miss Coleman Saw through the Window
The Constable His Clue and the
The Quarry Doubles
The Murder at Mrs Endersons
The Man Who was Murdered
All that Mrs Enderson Knew
The Sudden Stopping
The Contents of the ThirdClass Carriage
The Conclusion of the Matter
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Richard Marsh (1857-1915) was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldman. He is best known for his supernatural thriller The Beetle: A Mystery, published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula and initially even more popular. Heldman was educated at Eton and Oxford University. Several of the prolific Marsh's novels were published posthumously.

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