Checkmate: You Have Played Your Game Well, But with All the Odds of the Position in Your Favour, I Am...

ISBN-10
1723703605
ISBN-13
9781723703607
Series
Checkmate
Pages
416
Language
English
Published
2018-09-14
Author
Sheridan Le Fanu

Description

What a fool I was! and yet in the sight of angels. Are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me only that our illusions change as we go on: but still we are madmen all the same.Checkmate is written by the Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) who is probably best known for his supernatural tales; he has written some of the best ghostly or otherworldly stories in the genre, and his works are nowadays considered as classics. Walter Longcluse is clever, cunning and rich. Having insinuated himself into the affections of the Arden family, he becomes devoted to the beautiful young Alice, although she cannot bring herself to like this strange and mysterious friend of her brother's. Then Longcluse visits a gambling club with Alice's brother, Richard, and finds himself confronting the indiscreet Monsieur Lebas, with whom he had been mixed up in the past. Later the same evening Lebas is found stabbed. What is the secret of Longcluse's disfigurement and the 'dark' past which he reveals to no one? Why did Mrs Tansey, the Ardens' housekeeper, react so strongly when she recognized Longcluse's voice? What is it that Longcluse so fears?

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