Marsh House

by Mary Linn Roby

This after her famous fathers suicide, Elizabeth Dalton sails to England where, working with his official biographer, a handsome, older man whose motives in dealing with this project are suspect, in the ominous setting of a Gothic manor house, she discovers the secrets of her fathers life in that same house when she was a child, including the horrible details of her mothers death, a murder which may await her, as well.

Genres: Gothic

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

aka Elisabeth Welles, Georgina Grey, Mary Wilson, Pamela D'Arcy, Pauline Pryor, Valerie Bradstreet.

Mary is the author of fifty-two Gothic, romances, regencies, and mystery novels. Mary also teaches English literature, creative writing, and rhetoric. Her husband is an English professor, a biographer, editor, and mystery writer.

Mary loves tennis, reading, and traveling, and her special editing interests lie in the field of fiction and memoirs. She enhances the creative talents of clients by giving their manuscripts a sympathetic reading, an in-depth critique, and meticulous editing.

Reviews

[William · Rating 2 out of 5]

Elizabeth Dalton has spent her young life completely in the orbit of her famous writer father. After his sudden death, she journeys from Connecticut to rural England to assist his authorized biographer Graham Weldon--and will soon realize that to do so means she must explore both his death and that of her mother, which happened when she was four. "Marsh House" is a problematic book: the author tries to explore the moral ambiguities and flaws that drive its small cast of characters and their relationships, as well as the definition of what "truth" is. In this sense, the novel is more ambitious than its genre typically demands. However, it spends so much time doing this that the exploration of the mystery at its core, and in particular the love plot, seem rushed and cursory, making this ultimately unsuccessful. For a stronger example of what I call "gothics for grown-ups," see the contemporaneous works by Cecily Crowe.

[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely LOVED this book, it's the book and author that got me into reading. I have read about 30 books just in two months!