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A Master of Mysteries

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The Mystery of the Circular Chamber - Part 1
27:57
The Mystery of the Circular Chamber - Part 2
17:29
The Warder of the Door
36:34
The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel
40:48
The Eight-Mile Lock - Part 1
23:17
The Eight-Mile Lock - Part 2
18:14
How Siva Spoke - Part 1
23:37
How Siva Spoke - Part 2
17:38
To Prove an Alibi - Part 1
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To Prove an Alibi - Part 2
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John Bell earns his living by explaining the inexplicable. A professional exposer of ghosts, he takes cases that look like the work of vengeful spirits or ancient curses, then dismantles them piece by piece to reveal the human fraud or physical cause underneath. Written by L. T. Meade with Robert Eustace, a physician who supplied the scientific mechanics, this 1898 collection first ran in Cassell's Magazine and gathers six episodic tales, among them the deaths in the Felwyn Tunnel, a family curse in "The Warder of the Door," and an idol that appears to speak in "How Siva Spoke." Every case sits where detective fiction meets the Victorian ghost story, yet Bell never meets a real haunting, only a clever crime. Readers who like their mysteries rational but eerie will find in him an early model of the sceptical investigator.

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L. T. Meade

L. T. Meade was the pen name of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (died 1914), a prolific Anglo-Irish author of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Best known in her own day for girls' school stories, she was also a pioneer of popular mystery and detective fiction, devising early female sleuths and criminal masterminds such as Madame Sara.

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