The Beetle: A Mystery

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It changes its shape at will. It compels others to do its bidding. It inspires terror in all who look on it ...Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of Westminster, but when 'The Beetle' arrives from Egypt to hunt him down, the dark and gruesome secret that haunts him is dragged into the light. Bent on revenge for a crime committed against the disciples of Isis, the Beetle terrorizes its victims and will stop at nothing until it has satisfaction. Six people's worlds are turned upside down by murder, mesmerism and human sacrifice as they struggle to save their sanity and above all, their lives.

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Author:   Richard Marsh ,  Ambrose Bierce
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Dimensions:   Width: 11.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 18.30cm
Weight:   0.266kg
ISBN:  

9780141038797

ISBN 10:   0141038799
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   02 October 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In stock at warehouse  
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Richard Marsh (1857-1915) was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldman. He is best known for his supernatural thriller The Beetle: A Mystery, published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula and initially even more popular. Heldman was educated at Eton and Oxford University. Several of the prolific Marsh's novels were published posthumously.

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