The Malefactor. E. Phillips Oppenheim

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664630087

Table of Contents

       BOOK I

       A SOCIETY SCANDAL

       OUTSIDE THE PALE

       A STUDENT OF CHARACTER

       A DELICATE MISSION

       THE GOSPEL OF HATE

       “HAST THOU FOUND ME, O MINE ENEMY?”

       LORD OF THE MANOR

       THE HEART OF A CHILD

       THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES

       A FORLORN HOPE

       PROFESSOR SINCLAIR’S DANCING ACADEMY

       MEPHISTOPHELES ON A STEAMER

       A COCKNEY CONSPIRATOR

       THE MOTH AND THE CANDLE

       “Tomorrow morning,” Aynesworth remarked, “we shall land.”

       “DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST”

       THE HIDDEN HAND

       BOOK II

       “MR. WINGRAVE FROM AMERICA”

       THE SHADOW OF A FEAR

       JULIET ASKS QUESTIONS

       LADY RUTH’S LAST CARD

       GUARDIAN AND WARD

       GHOSTS OF DEAD THINGS

       SPREADING THE NETS

       “By the bye,” the Marchioness asked him, “have you a Christian name?”

       IN THE TOILS

       THE INDISCRETION OF THE MARCHIONESS

       “I AM MISANTHROPOS, AND HATE MANKIND”

       JULIET GAINS EXPERIENCE

       NEMESIS AT WORK

       RICHARDSON TRIES AGAIN

       “You saw—who that was?”

       “IT WAS AN ACCIDENT”

       AYNESWORTH PLANS A LOVE STORY

       A DEED OF GIFT

       FOR PITY’S SAKE

       A DREAM OF PARADISE

       THE AWAKENING

       REVENGE IS—BITTER

       THE WAY OF PEACE

       “LOVE SHALL MAKE ALL THINGS NEW”