Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Der unzustellbare Brief
Für wen es gedacht ist
You will enjoy this if you like Victorian detectives, secret loves, haunted houses and clues hidden in plain sight, and if you enjoy a mystery that reaches from a quiet Hudson River village to distant shores.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
A clerk in the Dead Letter Office pauses over a yellowed envelope, then opens it. It was posted two years earlier, and it points to a murder he swore to solve. The Dead Letter, by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor, gives you a stabbing on a stormy night, a calm detective with a strange gift, and a young lawyer who loves the wrong woman. Begin with the evening that starts it all.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A stormy Saturday and a guest who never arrivesFree
- 2A body on the path and a hidden wound
- 3Grief breaks the house, and a stranger watches
- 4Money vanishes and a detective takes the case
- 5A handkerchief, a broken chain and a ghost story
- 6Burton's gift and a child in a trance
- 7Gamblers, a haunted villa and a chilly house
- 8A night in the villa and a fall from grace
- 9The letter that comes back and what the book weighs
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A stormy Saturday and a guest who never arrives
Richard Redfield, a law student, spends the evening in the Argyll house in the village of Blankville. Everyone waits for Henry Moreland, a banker's son engaged to Eleanor Argyll. She dresses with care and glows with happiness while rain pounds the windows.
The hours pass and Henry does not come. A train whistle cuts through the storm, and to Richard it sounds like a warning. Eleanor keeps glancing at her tiny watch. Her cousin James pounds the piano, and her young sister Mary teases everyone. Richard loves Eleanor in secret and hopes nobody notices.
Mr. Argyll tells everyone to begin tea. Afterward, Eleanor sends a servant to the post office in the rain, but he returns with no note. Richard lies awake for hours, shaken by the wind, feeling that something terrible is close. The quiet house gives no hint of what the night has hidden on the road outside.
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Questions about Der unzustellbare Brief
What is The Dead Letter about?
It follows Richard Redfield, a young lawyer who vows to find the killer of Henry Moreland, stabbed on a stormy night. A detective named Burton and an old lost letter help him as suspicion falls on the wrong people.
Who is Mr. Burton in The Dead Letter?
Burton belongs to the secret detective police who once worked as a forwarding merchant and turns to crime solving after a fire brings serious losses. He works without pay, reads handwriting, and trusts his daughter Lenore's unusual gift of sight.
What is the dead letter in the title?
It is a sealed letter posted in 1857 to a John Owen in Peekskill that never reached him. Richard finds it while working in the Dead Letter Office, and its vague words become a vital clue.
Is The Dead Letter a true story?
No, it is a novel. It was written in the nineteenth century by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor and set in the 1850s, in a Hudson River village and in New York City, with a long trip toward the Pacific.
Is The Dead Letter easy to read?
The story moves from scene to scene with short chapters, clear mysteries and a narrator who speaks warmly to the reader. The central mystery gives you a clear thread to follow.