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100 1 _aTyson, J. Aubrey
_q(John Aubrey),
_d1870-1930
245 1 4 _aThe barge of haunted lives
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-07
508 _aTom 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.)
520 _aThe 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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: The Macmillan Company, 1923
653 _aDetective and mystery stories
653 _aGems -- Theft -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/bargeofhauntedli00tyso/page/n5/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77879
999 _c118599
_d118599