Project Gutenberg 2006-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 98 Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith) 1863 1935 Fletcher, Joseph Smith The Middle of Things Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Middle of Things" by J. S. Fletcher is a mystery novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Richard Viner, a young gentleman who finds himself entangled in a murder mystery when he discovers a body in a dark passageway near his home. The opening chapters introduce a clever interplay between Viner and his aunt, Miss Bethia Penkridge, who has a fascination with sensational fiction, which runs parallel to the unfolding real-life crime. At the start of the novel, Viner spends an evening reading to his aunt, only to later witness a shocking murder as he takes his customary late-night stroll. The victim is soon identified as Mr. Ashton, a man of mysterious background and wealth, who has just arrived from Australia. As the police investigate, and Viner becomes a key witness, the story unfolds with layers of intrigue surrounding Ashton's life, including references to a secret that could potentially impact influential families in England. The opening portion effectively sets up a highly engaging mystery filled with suspense and various characters whose connections to the deceased promise further developments in the plot. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Detective and mystery stories PR Text Detective Fiction Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 492538 492424 2024-09-04T11:01:09.349677 2023-10-05T04:20:47.034685 text/html text/html 492531 492417 2024-09-04T11:01:09.579654 2023-10-05T04:20:47.234699 text/html text/html 215040 2024-09-04T11:01:16.637670 application/epub+zip 222225 2024-09-04T11:01:11.040647 application/epub+zip 222225 2024-09-04T11:01:10.150709 application/epub+zip 417570 2024-09-04T11:01:21.158640 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 380211 2024-09-04T11:01:15.959663 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 380247 2022-09-05T05:58:09.738779 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 441966 441895 2024-09-04T11:01:08.952715 2023-10-05T04:20:46.685684 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 441952 2020-12-27T02:15:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 159284 2020-12-27T02:15:28 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 441943 2020-12-27T02:15:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 159258 2020-12-27T02:15:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19798 2024-09-04T11:01:21.296605 application/rdf+xml 11658 2024-09-04T11:01:10.519693 image/jpeg 3102 2024-09-04T11:01:10.329709 image/jpeg 212040 2024-09-04T11:01:09.620694 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