Check and Checkmate
21 hrs. 0 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Author
Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Narrator
Andrey Novokreshchenov
Narrator
Andrey Novokreshchenov
Description
A Victorian Gothic novel about a wealthy gentleman with a dark past who enters the life of a fallen aristocratic family.
The noble Arden family is on the brink of ruin: the head of the family, Sir Reginald, once again mortgages the ancestral estate of Mortlake Hall, while his son Richard, playing cards, squanders the remaining fortune—so all hope rests on their young beauty daughter, Alice, whom relatives plan to marry off successfully.
At this difficult time for the family, in London society there appears a rich gentleman, Walter Longcluse, about whose past nobody knows anything. Longcluse quickly wins the Ardens’ favor: he pays off Richard’s gambling debts and even offers to marry Alice.
But what is hidden in Longcluse’s dark past, and are his intentions truly selfless? What does he have to do with the mysterious murder that took place in Mortlake Hall’s old castle twenty years ago?
The noble Arden family is on the brink of ruin: the head of the family, Sir Reginald, once again mortgages the ancestral estate of Mortlake Hall, while his son Richard, playing cards, squanders the remaining fortune—so all hope rests on their young beauty daughter, Alice, whom relatives plan to marry off successfully.
At this difficult time for the family, in London society there appears a rich gentleman, Walter Longcluse, about whose past nobody knows anything. Longcluse quickly wins the Ardens’ favor: he pays off Richard’s gambling debts and even offers to marry Alice.
But what is hidden in Longcluse’s dark past, and are his intentions truly selfless? What does he have to do with the mysterious murder that took place in Mortlake Hall’s old castle twenty years ago?
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