The mystery of CloomberArthur Conan Doyle
The mystery of Cloomber
by OpenStories
Original author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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"The Mystery of Cloomber" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a novel first published in 1889. A retired general lives in terror in rural Scotland, haunted by a mysterious crime committed forty years earlier during the First Anglo-Afghan War. Strange sounds accompany him, and his fears peak every October. When three Buddhist priests arrive after a shipwreck, the general resigns himself to his fate, refusing all help as a decades-old vengeance finally closes in.
The mystery of Cloomber, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #7964.
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16 Chapters
- 1.Chapter I: The Hegira of the Wests From Edinburgh1,026 words
- 2.Chapter II: Of the Strange Manner in Which a Tenant Came to Cloomber1,814 words
- 3.Chapter III: Of Our Further Acquaintance with Major-General J. B. Heatherstone2,332 words
- 4.Chapter IV: Of a Young Man with a Grey Head1,722 words
- 5.Chapter V: How Four of Us Came to Be Under the Shadow of Cloomber3,035 words
- 6.Chapter VI: How I Came to Be Enlisted as One of the Garrison of Cloomber1,519 words
- 7.Chapter VII: Of Corporal Rufus Smith and His Coming to Cloomber3,472 words
- 8.Chapter VIII: Statement of Israel Stakes3,776 words
- 9.Chapter IX2,560 words
- 10.Chapter X: Of the Letter Which Came From the Hall783 words
- 11.Chapter XI: Of the Casting Away of the Barque “belinda”4,381 words
- 12.Chapter XII: Of the Three Foreign Men Upon the Coast2,161 words
- 13.Chapter XIII: In Which I See That Which Has Been Seen by Few5,259 words
- 14.Chapter XIV: Of the Visitor Who Ran Down the Road in the Night-Time4,132 words
- 15.Chapter XV: The Day-Book of John Berthier Heatherstone5,791 words
- 16.Chapter XVI: At the Hole of Cree3,789 words