Project Gutenberg 2003-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 58 Magnay, William, Sir 1855 1917 Magnay, Sir William The Hunt Ball Mystery Reading ease score: 73.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Hunt Ball Mystery" by Sir William Magnay is a detective novel written in the early 20th century. Set against the backdrop of a hunt ball in a country house, the story revolves around an intriguing mystery following the sudden death of a man named Clement Henshaw, who is discovered dead in a locked room. The book features main characters including Hugh Gifford and Captain Kelson, who attempt to unravel the circumstances surrounding Henshaw's demise, which is initially thought to be a suicide. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to the tense atmosphere at the railway station and the subsequent events leading to the hunt ball. Hugh Gifford is left without his evening clothes after his luggage gets sent on the wrong train, causing much frustration. As the story unfolds, Gifford and Kelson meet Henshaw—whose demeanor raises suspicions. Following the ball, Henshaw is found dead in a locked room, prompting a stirring inquest and leaving his brother, Gervase Henshaw, determined to investigate further. The opening chapters establish a groundwork of intrigue, presenting a mix of personal tensions, character dynamics, and unresolved questions that set up the mystery at the heart of the narrative. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Detective and mystery stories PR Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature 356366 356245 2024-10-05T03:36:20.001837 2023-10-05T04:45:53.494746 text/html text/html 356359 356238 2024-10-05T03:36:20.271052 2023-10-05T04:45:53.673765 text/html text/html 195426 2024-10-05T03:36:27.141324 application/epub+zip 200378 2024-10-05T03:36:22.212335 application/epub+zip 200378 2024-10-05T03:36:20.996409 application/epub+zip 373153 2024-10-05T03:36:31.000283 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 341756 2024-10-05T03:36:26.367342 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 320024 2022-09-05T06:35:54.758991 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 314936 314866 2024-10-05T03:36:19.607874 2023-10-05T04:45:53.217732 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 316304 2020-12-19T13:56:49 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 115271 2020-12-19T13:56:49 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 316295 2020-12-19T13:56:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 115249 2020-12-19T13:56:49 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20653 2024-10-05T03:36:31.127289 application/rdf+xml 12373 2024-10-05T03:36:21.549361 image/jpeg 3280 2024-10-05T03:36:21.271358 image/jpeg 192127 2024-10-05T03:36:20.301348 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia