The mystery of Cloomber: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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The mystery of Cloomber is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859–1930).
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"The Mystery of Cloomber" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a novel first published in 1889. A retired general lives in terror in rural Scotland, haunted by a mysterious crime committed forty years earlier during the First Anglo-Afghan War. Strange sounds accompany him, and his fears peak every October. When three Buddhist priests arrive after a shipwreck, the general resigns himself to his fate, refusing all help as a decades-old vengeance finally closes in.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The mystery of Cloomber
- Author credits: Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859–1930)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Buddhist priests -- Fiction
- East India Company. Army -- Officers -- Fiction
- Hindu Kush Mountains Region (Afghanistan and Pakistan) -- Fiction
- Massacres -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Revenge -- Fiction
- Wigtownshire (Scotland) -- Fiction
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- Category: British Literature
- Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
- Category: Novels
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