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The Sign of the Seven Sins
Carmela Rosselli sets down her own strange story of the Riviera, where a sudden murder at Monte Carlo draws her and her friend Ulrica Yorke into a mystery.
"The Sign of the Seven Sins" by William Le Queux is a mystery novel set on the French Riviera and at Monte Carlo. Told in the first person by Carmela Rosselli, it involves a murder, a millionaire, and a figure known as the Owl.
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No; I dare not reveal everything here, lest I may be misjudged. The narrative is, to say the least, a strange one; so amazing, indeed, that had I not been one of the actual persons concerned therein I would never have believed that such things could be.
Yet these chapters of an eventful personal history, remarkable though they may appear, are nevertheless the truth, a combination of unusual circumstances which will be found startling and curious, idyllic and tragic. Reader, I would confess all if I dared, but each of us have skeletons in our cupboards, both you and I—for, alas! I am no exception to the general rule among women.
If compelled by natural instinct to suppress one single fact, I may also add that it has little or nothing to do with the circumstances herein related. [8]It only concerns myself, and no woman cares to afford food for gossips at her own expense. Briefly, it is my intention to narrate plainly and straightforwardly all that occurred, in the hope that those who read may approach it with a perfectly open mind and afterwards adjudge me fairly, impartially, and without the prejudice attaching to one whose shortcomings are many, and whose actions have perhaps not always been tempered by wisdom.
Contents
- 01Chapter I Is Purely Personal
- 02Chapter II Tells Something About Love
- 03Chapter III Is a Mystery
- 04Chapter IV Relates Some Astounding Facts
- 05Chapter V Deals with a Millionaire
- 06Chapter VI Places Me in a Predicament
- 07Chapter VII Mainly Concerns the Owl
- 08Chapter VIII Narrates a Mysterious Incident
- 09Chapter IX Shows the Bird’s Talons
- 10Chapter X Makes One Point Plain
- 11Chapter XI Describes a Meeting and Its Sequel
- 12Chapter XII Carries Me on Board the Vispera
- 13Chapter XIII Discloses a Millionaire’s Secret
- 14Chapter XIV in Which I Make a Resolve
- 15Chapter XV Is Astonishing
- 16Chapter XVI Is More Astonishing
- 17Chapter XVII Confides the Story of a Table
- 18Chapter XVIII Gives the Key of the Cipher
- 19Chapter XIX Pieces Together the Puzzle....
- 20Chapter XX Reveals the Truth
- 21Chapter XXI Contains the Conclusion
About this edition
- Author
- William Le Queux
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 170 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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