Project Gutenberg 2011-06-07 Public domain in the USA. 146 Hume, Fergus 1859 1932 Hume, Ferguson Wright Hume, Fergus W. (Ferguson Wright) The Mandarin's Fan Produced by Amber N Black, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Mandarin's Fan" by Fergus Hume is a novel written during the early 20th century. It centers around Rupert Ainsleigh, a young man burdened by his family's misfortunes, who is on a quest for a valuable jade fan that holds the promise of wealth and resolution to his financial woes. The story weaves themes of love, curses, and the supernatural, setting the stage for a mix of romance and mystery. At the start of the narrative, Rupert is engaged in a conversation with Major Tidman, revealing the tension of his financial troubles and an ancestral curse associated with the Ainsleigh family. He learns about a mysterious jade fan belonging to Mandarin Lo-Keong, which is said to bring fortune to its possessor, and he believes it could help save his estate. As Rupert expresses his determination to find the fan, discussions about his love for Olivia Rayner, the daughter of his aunt Sophia Wharf, introduce further complication, as Miss Wharf holds a mortgage on his estate. As Rupert navigates the intricate web of personal and familial conflict, hints of darker mysteries surrounding the fan begin to emerge, foreshadowing the challenges he will face in his quest. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/36346/36346-h/images/cover.png en Detective and mystery stories Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Chinese -- England -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 500431 500497 2024-09-15T11:08:12.617430 2023-09-16T04:55:56.472984 text/html text/html 508481 2013-12-15T15:40:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 350116 2013-12-15T15:42:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 372205 2024-09-15T11:08:20.357340 application/epub+zip 377087 2024-09-15T11:08:13.851396 application/epub+zip 263716 2024-09-15T11:08:13.245383 application/epub+zip 536234 2024-09-15T11:08:25.042315 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 503495 2024-09-15T11:08:19.626356 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 384343 2022-09-16T14:55:35.290138 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 452210 451985 2024-09-15T11:08:11.100393 2023-09-16T04:55:55.109965 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 452087 2013-12-15T15:40:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 166169 2013-12-15T15:42:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 452123 2013-12-15T15:40:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 166164 2013-12-15T15:42:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20984 2024-09-15T11:08:25.188311 application/rdf+xml 26879 2024-09-15T11:08:13.344382 image/jpeg 3658 2024-09-15T11:08:13.295386 image/jpeg 348955 2024-09-15T11:08:12.664405 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