The Shadow on Ravenswood Hall
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“Delivered by hand, with no postmark, and signed with a single word of fear.”
When Thomas Ashworth receives a letter from an old Oxford friend, he boards the five o'clock train to Wiltshire without telling a soul. By the time he arrives at Ravenswood Hall, Edmund Ravenswood is already dressed for the dinner at which he promised to reveal everything. By half past ten, Edmund is dead.
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How it begins
Thomas Ashworth noticed this on the second look, which was characteristic of him: the first look told him what a thing appeared to be, and the second told him what it was. The envelope lay on the worn Turkey carpet of his chambers in Gray’s Inn, just inside the door, where the morning light from the single tall window could not quite reach it. It had been raining since before dawn — a thin, persistent London rain that turned the courts below into sheets of grey glass — and yet the paper was dry. Whoever had delivered it had done so in the small hours, before the weather turned, and had come up three flights of stairs to do it, past a porter who noticed everything, and had somehow contrived to be unnoticed.
Is this your kind of book?
The Shadow on Ravenswood Hall is self-contained gothic suspense — one book, one story, no series commitment. It is written for readers who want the patient kind of crime and suspense: plotted, unhurried, and more interested in what people conceal than in how loudly it ends.
It is a standalone novel. There is no series to catch up on and no cliffhanger waiting at the end — one book, one complete story.
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