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You will love these books if you enjoy old-fashioned melodrama, secret identities, daring escapes, detectives on a trail, and heroines who stand up to wicked schemers.
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A bride lies dead in her wedding satin the day before her wedding, a small jeweled dagger in her hand. A jury calls it suicide. Yet a doctor with restless black eyes sees life beneath her stillness, and after the funeral her coffin is found empty.
This volume holds two Victorian sensation novels by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, an American writer who died in 1937. The Bride of the Tomb follows Lily Lawrence, a New York banker's daughter. Queenie's Terrible Secret follows Queenie Lyle, a pretty seventeen-year-old who sells a painted fan to buy a ball dress. You get quick turns, hidden schemes, ghostly visions and heroines who refuse to give in.
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- 1A bride's apparent suicide hides a crimeFree
- 2Colville holds Lily captive and she tries to escape
- 3A chained woman in the cellar changes Lily's plans
- 4A broken locket sets a detective on the trail
- 5Queenie sells her fan and meets a stranger
- 6Queenie vanishes for a year and comes home marked
- 7A wedding bouquet brings a worse captivity
- 8Both books turn on secrets, and on who deserves blame
- 9Jealousy and love drive the plots
- 10The tale is told with ghosts, disguises and cliffhangers
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A bride's apparent suicide hides a crime
Lily Lawrence is eighteen, rich, loved and due to marry Lancelot Darling the next day. On a June morning her father forces open her locked door and finds her on the carpet in her wedding satin, a jeweled dagger in her hand. A coroner's jury rules that she took her own life in a moment of madness.
The widow Mrs. Vance says Lily had strange spells of depression. Dr. Pratt, a tall, dark physician, gives his evidence in a clipped voice. At the funeral his eyes miss nothing. Afterward he calls on Harold Colville, a rich man who loved Lily and was turned away.
Pratt says Lily was never dead but lay in a deathlike trance called catalepsy, and he will sell the secret for ten thousand dollars. The two agree to take her from the family vault that night. When Lancelot and Mr. Lawrence lift the coffin lid, they find only the shape of her body. A staged death can hide a living victim.
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Questions about La Fiancée du tombeau et le terrible secret de Queenie
What is The Bride of the Tomb about?
It follows Lily Lawrence, a New York banker's daughter who seems to kill herself the night before her wedding. In fact a doctor and a rejected suitor steal her from the vault and hold her prisoner, while a detective starts to follow the clues.
What is Queenie's Terrible Secret about?
It tells of Queenie Lyle, a lively girl who sells her painted fan to attend a ball and attracts a handsome captain. A mysterious year in her past shadows her marriage and brings enemies and a stage career.
Are these stories true?
No, they are fictional Victorian sensation novels by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, who died in 1937. They were written for a popular audience and use invented people, settings in New York and London, and many dramatic turns.
What does the word catalepsy mean in The Bride of the Tomb?
Catalepsy is a rare condition in which a person lies stiff and unresponsive, looking dead while still alive. In the story Dr. Pratt uses the idea to explain why Lily seems lifeless and why he can save her.
Is this book easy to follow?
Yes, the chapters are short and each one moves the plot forward. The narrator speaks directly to the reader, the scenes are vivid, and the villains, heroines and heroes are easy to tell apart.
Cite this edition
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-bride-of-the-tomb-and-queenies-terrible-secret.
Miller, A. M., Mrs. (2026). The bride of the tomb, and Queenie's terrible secret. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-bride-of-the-tomb-and-queenies-terrible-secret
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-bride-of-the-tomb-and-queenies-terrible-secret.
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