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Silent Guests
A lawyer goes in search of a missing man in relation to an inheritance, and finds, not the man, but a sophisticated manor in the Canadian backwoods, where men who have been jailed unjustly or for excessive sentences are rehabilitated.
He befriends the owner and falls in love with the owner's younger sister, who appears to have a strange affliction or supernatural gift.
He befriends the owner and falls in love with the owner's younger sister, who appears to have a strange affliction or supernatural gift.
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Published March 20, 2026
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March 23, 2026
I picked this up off the Project Gutenberg feed knowing little about it and nothing about its author. I've found at least one gem that way (
Joan & Co.
), but this was not another.
Gutenberg files it under "Mystery Fiction," but as far as I got (about a third of the way in), while there are things yet to be explained, there's not much mystery in the traditional sense. I stopped at that point because it was taking a hard turn into spiritualism, as was the style at the time, and that's not something that interests me at all.
The writing can be a bit overwrought in places. Sample: "In time I slept, nor did I dream in that unconscious period in which the battery of what is termed life receives its regular charge from nature’s dynamo, without which charge the house of the soul would become uninhabitable."
The native Canadian and the Chinese man are total caricatures, the philosophy is bunkum, and there's instalove. The description of the Canadian wilderness isn't bad.
Gutenberg files it under "Mystery Fiction," but as far as I got (about a third of the way in), while there are things yet to be explained, there's not much mystery in the traditional sense. I stopped at that point because it was taking a hard turn into spiritualism, as was the style at the time, and that's not something that interests me at all.
The writing can be a bit overwrought in places. Sample: "In time I slept, nor did I dream in that unconscious period in which the battery of what is termed life receives its regular charge from nature’s dynamo, without which charge the house of the soul would become uninhabitable."
The native Canadian and the Chinese man are total caricatures, the philosophy is bunkum, and there's instalove. The description of the Canadian wilderness isn't bad.
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