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The Beetle

by Richard MARSH (1857 - 1915)

24 - A Woman's View

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, The Beetle is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters, a technique used in many late nineteenth-century novels (those of Wilkie Collins and Stoker, for example) to create suspense. Richard Marsh was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Listen next episodes of The Beetle:
25 - The Man in the Street , 26 - A Father's No , 27 - The Terror by Night , 28 - The Strange Story of the Man in the Street , 29 - The House on the Road From the Workhouse , 30 - The Singular Behavior of Mr Holt , 31 - The Terror by Day , 32 - A New Client , 33 - What Came From Looking Through a Lattice , 34 - After Twenty Years , 35 - A Bringer of Tidings , 36 - What the Tidings Were , 37 - What Was Hidden Under the Floor , 38 - The Rest of the Find , 39 - Miss Louisa Coleman , 40 - What Miss Coleman Saw Through the Window , 41 - The Constable,--His Clue,--And the Cab , 42 - The Quarry Doubles , 43 - The Murder at Mrs. 'Enderson's , 44 - The Man Who Was Murdered , 45 - All That Mrs. 'Enderson Knew , 46 - The Sudden Stopping , 47 - The Contents of the Third-Class Carriage , 48 - The Conclusion of the Matter