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What if sensing more than everyone around you brings danger closer?
In Karl Grier, Louis Tracy places a man with a sixth sense at the heart of a mystery. His strange gift sets him apart from those around him. Unusual perception, rising peril and the pull of love share the stage in a story where danger and desire sit close together.
The novel belongs to the world of Victorian sensation fiction, where uncanny powers meet mystery and romance. Tracy offers a clear plot, strong contrasts between good and bad characters, and chapters that close on suspense. For Karl Grier, the promise of extraordinary knowledge comes with the pressure of danger and feeling.
What you’ll discover
- A man set apart Meet Karl Grier, whose sixth sense makes him unlike the people around him.
- The pull of the uncanny Explore a mystery that gives strange perception a place beside danger and desire.
- Romance amid the peril Follow the romantic thread that brings feeling into a story of unusual powers.
- Suspense at chapter's end Let each suspenseful chapter ending draw you onward through Tracy's clear plot.
- A taste of sensation fiction Enter a world of sharp moral contrasts, odd gifts and gathering danger.
Who will love it
Readers who like early science romance, psychic mysteries with a love triangle, and an old-fashioned narrator who chats, digresses and sets his friends in peril across London, New York and the Italian lakes.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A child sees a raid from afar
- The sea and the rescue of Constantine
- Oxford and the first vision of Maggie
- Hooper tests the gift
- The narrator joins the plot
- Maggie's story and the threat
- Five years on, the other woman
- Steindal's punishment and the plan
- How the story is told
Who’s who
- Karl GrierA tall, cheerful Scot-German with a sixth sense that sees and hears at a distance, and who fears it may cost him his life.
- Maggie HutchinsonA gifted violinist and childhood friend who shares Karl's link, and who shuts herself away to protect him.
- Frank HooperA shrewd American lawyer and Oxford friend who tests Karl's gift and devises the plan to save him.
- The narratorA journalist and old friend of Karl's father who writes the memoir and is drawn into the rescue.
- Nora CazenoveThe lord's daughter engaged to Karl, passionate and jealous, who senses a rival and wants to keep him.
- Paul ConstantineA wealthy Armenian once rescued by Karl as a boy, who comes to love Maggie and is haunted by fear.
- Wilhelm SteindalA scheming concert agent and financier who plots against Maggie and later seeks revenge on Karl.
- Mr. GrierKarl's father, a Highland tea planter turned financier, who wants a grand match for his son and fears for his life.
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Karl Grier
by Louis Tracy
A boy on a Darjeeling tea estate sees a bandit raid miles away, and the gift follows him into love and danger.
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Karl Grier is a Victorian-era novel by Louis Tracy, who died in 1928. It follows a Scottish-German boy raised on a Darjeeling tea estate who is born with a strange extra faculty.
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A child sees a raid from afar
The story opens with a narrator who says he is the biographer of his friend Karl Grier. He explains that Karl has a sixth sense, which the two later name telegnomy, or far-knowing. Learned critics deny it, and Karl has kept the facts quiet to protect those dear to him.
Karl grows up in India, where his father grows tea near Darjeeling. His mother is German, his nurse is French and his bearer is a Muslim servant, so he hears four languages around him. He claims that he understood the feeling inside every sound, much as a terrier knows its master's tone. He also understood animals, from the cries of kites to the alarm of mynahs that found a snake.
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What is Karl Grier about?
It follows Karl Grier, a young man born with a sixth sense called telegnomy that lets him see and hear events far away. His friend tells how the gift saves lives and then endangers him and the women who love him.
What does telegnomy mean in Karl Grier?
Telegnomy means far-knowing. It is the name Karl and his friend give to his faculty of seeing and hearing distant events, which they compare to wireless telegraphy and magnetic induction rather than to ghosts.
Who is Maggie Hutchinson?
Maggie is Karl's childhood friend from Darjeeling and later a gifted violinist. She shares his link across great distances, which draws her into the danger around Constantine and Steindal.
The author
Louis Tracy
1863–1928 · British novelist
Louis Tracy was a British writer who lived from 1863 to 1928. He was born in Liverpool, England, and wrote novels, including mysteries and romances. His books included The Albert Gate Mystery, published in 1904, The Silent Barrier, published in 1910, and One Wonderful Night, published in 1912.
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