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The Brocklebank Riddle (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Hubert Wales

 
9780666500441: The Brocklebank Riddle (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

A skeptical banker finds his partner’s death returns to life, sparking a dangerous clash between science and the unknown.

In this suspenseful tale, a pair of partners run a firm in London as they confront rumors, personal beliefs, and a mind-bending mystery. The novel opens with a determined narrator recording the facts to reveal a truth that seems impossible, yet presses in with chilling inevitability. A brilliant, doubting physicist and a haunted world of séances and occult experiments push the story beyond ordinary crime into questions of life, death, and memory.

  • A sharp clash between scientific skepticism and belief in the impossible
  • A death and a strange return that tests friendship and trust
  • An intense consultation with a physician who probes mind and perception
  • A staged séance that blurs illusion, hypnosis, and the limit of reality
  • A slow-burn mystery that asks what it means to be truly alive
Ideal for readers of classic occult thrillers and early 20th‑century suspense, The Brocklebank Riddle will appeal to those who enjoy careful character study and atmospheric puzzles.

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