The Shadow of a Crime

A Cumbrian Romance

by Hall Caine

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The Shadow of a Crime, subtitled A Cumbrian Romance, is by Hall Caine. The contents list names, among others, the chapters “The City of Wythburn”, “The Crime in the Night”, “In the Red Lion” and “The Outcast”. A character named Wilson enters a cottage with a livid face and murmurs, as though to himself, “Aiblins we may be quits yet, my chiel'.”

A character named Rotha stands at the end of the lonnin, where the lane to Shoulthwaite joined the pack-horse road, wrapped in a long woollen cloak. A dying man says, “There can be no rest for me, Rotha, till I tell you something that lies like iron at my heart.”

About the author

Hall Caine

Hall Caine built an international readership through novels, drama, biography, and public lectures rooted in the moral and social life of the Isle of Man. The Manxman places a difficult triangle of loyalty, ambition, and love within Manx custom, while The Little Manx Nation gathers lectures on the island's rulers, church, and people.