Project Gutenberg 2000-10-01 Public domain in the USA. 85 Rinehart, Mary Roberts 1876 1958 The After House an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer. HTML version by Al Haines. "The After House" by Mary Roberts Rinehart is a mystery novel penned in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the character Leslie, who finds himself on a yacht named Ella shortly after recovering from a serious illness. As the narrative unfolds, readers are drawn into a web of suspense surrounding the ship and its crew, highlighting both personal ambitions and darker human emotions, culminating in a series of tragic events. At the start of the novel, Leslie introduces himself as a newly graduated medical student who, after enduring a bout of typhoid fever, is drawn to the adventurous life at sea. With a background as a deck-steward and an ambition for adventure, he is introduced to the Ella, a transformed coasting-vessel now serving as a yacht. His time on board showcases not only his interactions with the crew, including the enigmatic Miss Lee, but also hints at a brewing conflict that suggests an ominous undercurrent aboard the ship. As tensions rise, occurrences hinting at mystery and danger begin to emerge, setting the stage for a suspenseful voyage that promises intrigue and peril in equal measure. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Detective and mystery stories Murder -- Fiction Yachts -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Fiction 322177 322258 2024-09-01T12:59:26.274330 2023-10-01T11:44:02.655915 text/html text/html 341485 2021-01-16T01:02:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 113988 2021-01-16T01:10:23 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 191012 2024-09-01T12:59:32.663262 application/epub+zip 191536 2024-09-01T12:59:27.691299 application/epub+zip 191536 2024-09-01T12:59:26.811345 application/epub+zip 322672 2024-09-01T12:59:36.346276 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 304438 2024-09-01T12:59:32.095302 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 304697 2022-09-02T03:44:18.218441 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 296994 296943 2024-09-01T12:59:25.602469 2023-10-01T11:44:02.014900 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 297187 2021-01-16T01:09:22 text/plain; charset=utf-8 109504 2021-01-16T01:09:49 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18409 2024-09-01T12:59:36.482247 application/rdf+xml 12131 2024-09-01T12:59:27.193306 image/jpeg 3245 2024-09-01T12:59:27.004294 image/jpeg 159273 2024-09-01T12:59:26.302303 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