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The Riddle Ring

The Riddle Ring

by Justin MCCARTHY (1830 - 1912)

This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a visit to Paris. What is the story of the ring? Why is Clelia Vine so sad? Who is the nameless 'chief'? And how is a dour English barber in a Parisian salon mixed up in all this?The novel, published in 1896, was written by Justin McCarthy, an Irish nationalist, Liberal historian, novelist and politician. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)


01 - Jim Conrad's Find

02 - The Slave of the Ring

03 - Jim's New Acquaintances

04 - Mr. Albert Edward Waley

05 - Mr. Waley's Chief

06 - Clelia Vine

07 - Mr. Marmaduke Coffin

08 - Someone Has Blundered

09 - Mr. Waley as Recruiting-Sergeant

10 - 'I Could Have Loved You, but...'

11 - The Sweet Sorrow of Parting

12 - Back to London

13 - Sir Francis Rose

14 - 'That Lady is Not Now Living'

15 - 'Will You Stand in with Us?'

16 - A Letter and a Meeting

17 - An Epoch-making Day

18 - Jim is an Unwelcome Messenger

19 - 'Hast Thou Found Me Out, O Mine Enemy?'

20 - 'Thy Kindness Freezes'

21 - 'Why Summon Him - and Trust Not Me?'

22 - What Mr. Waley Did with Himself

23 - What the Chief Did with Himself

24 - 'What is to be Done First?'

25 - What is to be Done Next?

26 - A Leap in the Dark

27 - The Ring Returned