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The Mystery of a Turkish Bath

by Rita

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Read by Bev J Stevens · 3 h 53 min · 15 parts

  1. Introduction and The First Room

    28:53

  2. The Second Room

    8:56

  3. The Cooling Room

    23:26

  4. Conjectures

    14:00

  5. Love

    15:22

  6. Enchantment

    16:37

  7. Curiosity

    14:00

  8. Surprise

    9:44

  9. Discussion

    10:39

  10. Premonition

    13:24

  11. The Dream

    14:38

  12. Effects

    13:45

  13. A Promise

    10:38

  14. The Dream Interpreted

    25:41

  15. Expiation

    13:42

The Mystery of a Turkish Bath (1888) is a public domain work.

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Rita, the pen name of the prolific Victorian novelist E. M. Gollan, sets this short novel in a grand seaside hotel in Hampshire, built by speculators who hoped to lure English invalids away from Wiesbaden and the Riviera. It opens one December morning in the hotel's Turkish bath, where a handful of ladies nurse their gout and neuralgia and trade remarks about their complexions.

Into this idle company walks a strikingly beautiful woman, a princess by marriage to an elderly and very rich Russian prince. Colonel Estcourt, another guest, knew her as a child and had once expected to marry her. Her displays of occult power feed the guests' arguments about spiritualism, mediums and slate writing, and tempt a few guests to ask her to teach them.

Rita mixes sharp social comedy, such as the ladies' fuss over bath costumes and a sceptic exposing the tricks of fake mediums, with a darkening story of the supernatural. It will appeal to readers of Victorian ghost and occult fiction who enjoy a tale that takes its debates about the afterlife seriously.

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Book facts

Author
Rita
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
81
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Bev J Stevens