Project Gutenberg 2003-10-01 Public domain in the USA. 111 Hume, Fergus 1859 1932 Hume, Ferguson Wright Hume, Fergus W. (Ferguson Wright) The Secret Passage Produced by an anonymous volunteer. HTML version by Al Haines. "The Secret Passage" by Fergus Hume is a mystery novel written during the late 19th century. The story revolves around the sudden and mysterious death of Miss Selina Loach, who is found dead in her home shortly after hosting friends for a card game. The narrative follows various characters, including the newly hired parlor-maid Susan Grant, who finds the body, and Cuthbert Mallow, who becomes embroiled in the investigation surrounding the murder. At the start of the story, the reader is introduced to Susan Grant as she secures a position as a parlor-maid in the home of Miss Loach. The initial chapter captures the uneasy dynamics between Susan and her employer, revealing both women's secrets through their thoughts. The atmosphere shifts dramatically when Susan discovers Miss Loach's dead body shortly after her first evening's duty, which kicks off a series of events involving other characters like the lawyers and friends who had been present at the card game the night before. As various characters speculate and share their perspectives, the opening lays the groundwork for a complex web of relationships and motivations that will likely unravel as the mystery deepens. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction Detective and mystery stories, English PR Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 561821 557092 2024-10-02T13:06:07.208396 2023-10-02T11:05:47.449981 text/html text/html 552670 2020-12-28T02:44:01 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 189471 2020-12-28T02:44:01 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 261384 2024-10-02T13:06:15.940879 application/epub+zip 269998 2024-10-02T13:06:09.246398 application/epub+zip 269998 2024-10-02T13:06:07.981427 application/epub+zip 482690 2024-10-02T13:06:20.769864 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 466886 2024-10-02T13:06:15.097853 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 442002 2022-09-02T15:09:31.183432 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 513235 513189 2024-10-02T13:06:05.252401 2023-10-02T11:05:45.793928 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 513167 2020-12-28T02:44:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 185660 2020-12-28T02:44:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19782 2024-10-02T13:06:20.909824 application/rdf+xml 13328 2024-10-02T13:06:08.546388 image/jpeg 3584 2024-10-02T13:06:08.260396 image/jpeg 254813 2024-10-02T13:06:07.255473 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