Project Gutenberg 2006-03-18 Public domain in the USA. 174 Green, Anna Katharine 1846 1935 Rohlfs, Mrs. Charles Rohlfs, Anna Katharine Green The Chief Legatee Reading ease score: 81.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Chief Legatee" by Anna Katharine Green is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story unfolds around the mysterious disappearance of a newlywed bride, Georgian Hazen, who vanishes just hours after her wedding ceremony. Her husband, Roger Ransom, is left bewildered and deeply concerned, leading him to enlist the help of a detective to unravel the mystery behind her sudden flight. The opening of the book introduces us to the immediate crisis as Mr. Ransom reports his wife’s disappearance to the hotel manager and a detective, Mr. Gerridge. The narrative reveals Ransom's frantic search and highlights his unwavering faith in Georgian's love and integrity. Ransom recounts their wedding day and the peculiar behavior leading up to her disappearance, particularly noting her reaction to an unknown man at the wedding. As the plot thickens, details about Georgian’s life and relationships hint at deeper mysteries involving family ties that had long been buried, setting the stage for a suspenseful exploration of love, trust, and identity. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/17999/17999-h/images/cover.jpg en Detective and mystery stories Inheritance and succession -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 381486 381242 2025-02-07T14:48:15.602366 2023-09-08T07:56:42.331998 text/html text/html 383207 2014-04-24T10:54:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 521809 2020-12-13T19:00:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 531594 2025-02-07T14:48:21.762350 application/epub+zip 531753 2025-02-07T14:48:16.565329 application/epub+zip 216629 2025-02-07T14:48:16.054339 application/epub+zip 659851 2025-02-07T14:48:26.027301 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 623329 2025-02-07T14:48:21.079335 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 316335 2022-09-08T14:08:15.062896 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 359950 359858 2025-02-07T14:48:14.860337 2023-09-08T07:56:41.605992 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 359715 2020-12-13T19:00:55 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 138006 2020-12-13T19:00:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 359722 2020-12-13T19:00:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 137995 2020-12-13T19:00:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21871 2025-02-07T14:48:26.176305 application/rdf+xml 17042 2025-02-07T14:48:16.139355 image/jpeg 2191 2025-02-07T14:48:16.097327 image/jpeg 525313 2025-02-07T14:48:15.655347 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