- Woman of Mystery
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Maurice Leblanc
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In 1898, a young boy watches in horror as his father is stabbed to death by a mysterious woman wearing a black lace scarf and an ornate brooch, Years later, when he arrives with his new bride at the chateau that was part of her dowry, he sees in a portrait the face of his father's murderer, wearing the same black lace and brooch -- his wife's late mother. Then he himself is attacked by a man resembling that same woman. Torn between love and repulsion for his bride, and plagued by self doubt, he answers the call to arms as world war begins. And in that war lies the answer to questions that have tormented him since the night of the original murder.
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- Chapters
- Chapter I, The Murder
- Chapter II, The Locked Room
- Chapter III, The Call to Arms
- Chapter IV, A Letter from Elisabeth
- Chapter V, The Peasant Woman at Corvigny
- Chapter VI, What Paul Saw at Ornequin
- Chapter VII, H.E.R.M.
- Chapter VIII, Elisabeth's Diary
- Chapter IX, A Sprig of Empire
- Chapter X, 75 or 155?
- Chapter XI, "Ysery, Misery"
- Chapter XII, Major Hermann
- Chapter XIII, The Ferryman's House
- Chapter XIV, A Masterpiece of Kultur
- Chapter XV, Prince Conrad Makes Merry
- Chapter XVI, The Impossible Struggle
- Chapter XVII, The Law of the Conqueror
- Chapter XVIII, Hill 132
- Chapter XIX, Hohenzollern
- Chapter XX, The Death Penalty -- And a Capital Punishment
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