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The Tickencote Treasure
The story follows Dr. Paul Pickering, an ordinary physician who becomes embroiled in an adventure when he sets sail on a cargo ship, the "Thrush", with a rough and charismatic captain, Job Seal.
"The Tickencote Treasure" by William Le Queux is a novel. The story follows Dr. Paul Pickering, an ordinary physician who becomes embroiled in an adventure when he sets sail on a cargo ship, the "Thrush", with a rough and charismatic captain, Job Seal.
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Read a passage
If you are fond of a mystery I believe you will ponder over this curious narrative just as I have pondered.
Certain persons, having heard rumours of the strange adventures that once happened to me, have asked me to write them down in detail, so that they may be printed and given to the world in their proper sequence. Therefore, in obedience, and in order to set at rest for ever certain wild and unfounded reports which crept into the papers at the time, I do so without fear or favour, seeking to conceal no single thing, but merely to relate what I actually saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears.
I read somewhere the other day the sweeping statement, written probably by one of our superior young gentlemen just down from Oxford, that Romance is dead. This allegation, however, I make so bold as to challenge—first, because in my own humble capacity I have actually been the unwilling actor in one of the most remarkable romances of modern times; and, secondly, because I believe with that sage old chronicler, Richard of Cirencester, that the man whose soul is filled with Greek has a heart of leather.
Contents
- 01Chapter I in Which Job Seal Borrows a Fusee
- 02Chapter II What We Saw and What We Heard
- 03Chapter III the Mysterious Man
- 04Chapter IV in Which I Examine the Parchments
- 05Chapter V with a Story to Tell
- 06Chapter VI an Expert Opinion
- 07Chapter VII What Was Written in the Vellum Book
- 08Chapter VIII the Seven Dead Men
- 09Chapter IX One Point Is Made Clear
- 10Chapter X the Guardian of the Secret
- 11Chapter XI Forestalled
- 12Chapter XII Job Seal Makes a Proposal
- 13Chapter XIII a Call, and Its Consequence
- 14Chapter XIV Requires Explanation
- 15Chapter XV Reveals Something of Importance
- 16Chapter XVI Mrs. Graham’s Visitor
- 17Chapter XVII the Seller of the Secret
- 18Chapter XVIII the Silent Man’s Warning
- 19Chapter XIX the Lady from Bayswater
- 20Chapter XX Philip Reilly Tells a Strange Story
- 21Chapter XXI We Make a Discovery in the Manor House
- 22Chapter XXII Black Bennett
- 23Chapter XXIII Job Seal Relates His Adventures
- 24Chapter XXIV the Mystery of Margaret Knutton
- 25Chapter XXV Reveals the Death-Trap
- 26Chapter XXVI in Which Ben Knutton Grows Confidential
- 27Chapter XXVII Dorothy Drummond Prefers Secrecy
- 28Chapter XXVIII We Receive Midnight Visitors
- 29Chapter XXIX Dorothy Makes a Confession
- 30Chapter XXX the Silent Man’s Story
- 31Chapter XXXI the House at Kilburn
- 32Chapter XXXII What We Discovered at the Record Office
- 33Chapter XXXIII We Decipher the Parchment
- 34Chapter XXXIV Our Search at Tickencote and Its Results
- 35Chapter XXXV the Spy, and What He Told Us
- 36Chapter XXXVI “Nine Points of the Law”
- 37Chapter XXXVII 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
- 280 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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