Spiderweb

by Alice Campbell

"So Jeanne has a lover," she concluded with a touch of amused wonder. "But what a lover!" Somehow the creature had suggested an undertaker. Alone in Paris after arriving from America, Catherine West finds herself swiftly and dangerously involved in the mysterious case of her cousin, Madame Germaine Bender. Catherine has received a letter from one of Mme Bender's close friends, urging her to come to Paris for reasons unspecified but pressing. When she reaches Mme Bender's house things go from merely intriguing to downright eerie. The servants are off-hand to the point of impertinence, and Mme Bender herself is like a ghost . . . Also in Paris is Geoffrey Macadam, an English lawyer, and Catherine and he join forces, trying to penetrate the mystery of what is happening-and why. Atmosphere, suspense, a touch of horror give this highly coloured novel of strange characters and exciting events a quality that is all Alice Campbell's own. Spiderweb was originally published in 1930. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. "She could not be unexciting if she tried" Times Literary Supplement

Genres: Mystery, Classics

459 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 6, 2022

About the author

Alice Ormond Campbell was an American-born British writer of detective fiction. Originally she came from Atlanta, Georgia, where she was part of the socially prominent Ormond family. Alice moved to New York City at the age of nineteen and quickly became a socialist and women’s suffragist. Later she moved to Paris. There she married the American-born artist and writer James Lawrence Campbell and had a son in 1914. After World War One, the family left France for England, where Campbell continued writing crime fiction until 1950.
She published her first work (The Juggernaut) in 1929. She wrote at least nineteen detective novels during her career.

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