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_aFreeman, R. Austin _q(Richard Austin), _d1862-1943 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aHelen Vardon's confession |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-08-25 | ||
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| 520 | _aHelen Vardon’s Confession by R. Austin Freeman is a detective novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on Helen Vardon, a solicitor’s daughter, whose father’s misapplied trust funds lead to blackmail and a coerced marriage proposal. The narrative promises a blend of domestic tragedy, romance, and crime as Helen’s sacrifice draws her into deeper peril. The opening of the novel presents Helen deciding to set down her story after glimpsing a first white hair, a small shock that recalls past terrors. She overhears a devastating conversation: her father has improperly used trust money, faces possible imprisonment, and a powerful acquaintance, Lewis Otway, offers to cover the loss if she will marry him. Fearing her father may take a desperate way out, Helen secretly meets Otway, signs a written promise to marry under strict conditions, and obtains his letter that temporarily removes the threat, which she delivers unseen to calm her father. Over the next days she hides her plan, writes a brief farewell-explanation, and arranges a clandestine ceremony. At the mission church, numb and detached, she stands with Otway as the hurried, hushed marriage service begins, her vows spoken as a grim act of rescue rather than love. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922 |
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| 653 | _aDetective and mystery stories | ||
| 653 | _aEngland -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aThorndyke, Doctor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aMarried women -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aArtists -- Fiction | ||
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