Project Gutenberg 2013-05-16 Public domain in the USA. 83 Wells, Carolyn 1862 1942 Houghton, Carolyn Wells The Luminous Face Reading ease score: 85.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Roger Frank and Sue Clark "The Luminous Face" by Carolyn Wells is a mystery novel written in the early 20th century. The story unfolds around the suspicious death of Robert Gleason, which is initially treated as a suicide but quickly reveals layers of intrigue and potential foul play. Key characters include Doctor Ely Davenport, a physician with a strong sense of self-importance; Pollard, a man with a mysterious connection to Gleason; and Phyllis Lindsay, who is revealed to have had a complicated relationship with the deceased. At the start of the narrative, a group of acquaintances discusses the unsolved murder of Gleason, establishing a tense atmosphere as they contemplate the nature of crime and motives. The dialogue hints at the complexity of human emotions surrounding the concept of murder. Soon after, a frantic call from Gleason claiming he has been shot propels Doctor Davenport into action, ultimately leading to the discovery of Gleason's body and raising questions about the circumstances of his death. The opening effectively sets the stage for a tangled web of relationships and motives that will likely unfold as the investigation progresses. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/42714/42714-h/images/cover.jpg en Fiction Detective and mystery stories PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 410693 410634 2024-11-18T04:43:31.075649 2023-09-18T13:09:04.202080 text/html text/html 411938 2013-05-21T07:21:36 text/html; charset=utf-8 272980 2013-05-21T07:22:22 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 261236 2024-11-18T04:43:36.655630 application/epub+zip 268700 2024-11-18T04:43:31.824628 application/epub+zip 209818 2024-11-18T04:43:31.445626 application/epub+zip 410104 2024-11-18T04:43:40.596839 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 390025 2024-11-18T04:43:36.299598 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 331372 2022-09-19T13:47:11.658446 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 370674 2024-10-18T04:48:59.553203 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 388739 2013-05-21T07:21:08 text/plain; charset=utf-8 139257 2013-05-21T07:22:22 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 370508 2013-05-21T07:19:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 137006 2013-05-21T07:22:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21413 2024-11-18T04:43:40.727588 application/rdf+xml 24395 2024-11-18T04:43:31.546595 image/jpeg 3659 2024-11-18T04:43:31.495619 image/jpeg 278804 2024-11-18T04:43:31.112595 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 More titles under Wright, Rowland en.wikipedia