The Tyson, J. Aubrey (John Aubrey) 1870-1930 creator text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats The Barge of Haunted Lives by J. Aubrey Tyson is a mystery-adventure novel with a framed narrative written in the early 20th century. It follows financier-host Hewitt Westfall as he gathers people with “haunted” pasts aboard a lavish, eerie barge to reveal how their fates intertwine, notably a veiled princess, a grim duck hunter, and a fugitive bridegroom. Their stories promise to converge around a sinister thread involving the Rajiid Buddha. At the start of the novel, a one‑eyed duck hunter, Colonel Canbeck, is surprised in the Long Island marshes by a young woman dropped there by a seaplane; together they board a strangely opulent barge whose salon holds faceless statues, armored suits with skulls, and a mummy. Westfall appears, names the woman as a princess, explains his barge as a refuge for “haunted lives,” and seats a table of guests known only by sobriquets while the woman attends veiled. He announces a series of linked confessions, beginning with the Fugitive Bridegroom, who recounts being cast into the sea after a yacht collision, surviving aboard a fire‑scorched derelict amid bats and an uncanny vampiric visitation, and then being rescued. Back in New York, he falls for Paula Trevison despite a rising dread; they marry and board an ocean liner, as the opening closes on the cusp of their departure and the larger mystery begins to unfurl. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2026-02-07 Tom Trussel, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923 Detective and mystery stories Gems -- Theft -- Fiction PS New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923 23004980 https://archive.org/details/bargeofhauntedli00tyso/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77879 https://archive.org/details/bargeofhauntedli00tyso/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77879 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134814.0 77879