ABOUT THE VIDEO:
A mystery in the 'old fashioned' romantic genre, introducing characters that inspired another famous writer of detective mystery fiction.
The heroine of the tale is Lilly Fairfield, a young and naïve, orphaned heiress. Lilly is to stay with her Countess Aunt in Monte Carlo for a few months, she was acquainted with her Aunt Emmeline as she had lived with her in England when Lilly was a young girl. The countess resides now with her husband at the uncannily named 'La Solitude', a rather down at heal, secluded and mysterious estate. Traveling by train she becomes acquainted with a middle aged French man and his traveling companion, a young Captain of the London Scottish regiment. The family seems to have fallen on hard times and their behaviour seems odd, and Lilly must call upon the help of her traveling friends when a body is found in the grounds of the estate. A mystery thus begins to unfold. - Summary and read by Andy Sames
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 Chapter 1
00:17:44 Chapter 2
00:43:45 Chapter 3
00:58:43 Chapter 4
01:27:10 Chapter 5
01:53:16 Chapter 6
02:18:32 Chapter 7
02:40:44 Chapter 8
02:58:20 Chapter 9
03:17:24 Chapter 10
03:46:37 Chapter 11
04:04:01 Chapter 12
04:20:14 Chapter 13
04:40:29 Chapter 14
05:05:54 Chapter 15
05:27:39 Chapter 16
05:48:34 Chapter 17
06:11:33 Chapter 18
06:28:14 Chapter 19
06:51:55 Chapter 20
07:19:30 Chapter 21
07:43:55 Chapter 22
08:01:29 Chapter 23
08:19:19 Chapter 24
08:45:32: Chapter 25
09:11:57 Chapter 26
09:31:37 Chapter 27
09:52:36 Chapter 28
10:19:21 Chapter 29
10:47:06 Chapter 30
11:02:31 Chapter 31
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868 - 1947)
Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes, née Belloc (5 August 1868 – 14 November 1947), was a prolific English novelist. Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incident with psychological interest. Her most famous novel, The Lodger (1913), based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, has been adapted for the screen five different times. Another novel of hers, Letty Lynton (1931), was the basis for the 1932 motion picture of the same name starring Joan Crawford.