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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aRoberts, Walter Adolphe,
_d1886-1962
245 1 4 _aThe haunting hand
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 2026-03-02
508 _aan anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer
520 _aThe Haunting Hand by Walter Adolphe Roberts is a mystery novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Margot Anstruther, a rising film actress in New York, whose lively studio life collides with an unnerving, seemingly supernatural threat: a disembodied hand that appears in her room. Caught between an ardent cameraman ally and a domineering director, she is drawn into a puzzle that blends show-business intrigue with creeping suspense. Expect a sharp, modern heroine using cool reason to probe a chilling mystery. The opening of the novel introduces Margot’s world: a roof-garden party with movie colleagues, a flirtatious yet menacing director (Stoner), and loyal cameraman Gene, amid gossip about a vanished lodger and hints of a stolen cache of radium. After midnight, alone in her brownstone room, Margot sees a thin hand slide from beneath her bed to snuff a burning match. Terrified but resourceful, she telephones Gene using a French-coded plea; he arrives with a revolver, finds nothing, but a smudged mark proves something touched the rug. The police are summoned, and in darkness one officer himself witnesses the eerie hand extinguish a flame, sending shock through the house. At dawn, Margot rejects ghostly explanations, convinced a human plot is at work. Back at the studio, she relates the incident to friends; Stoner warns her off publicity and control-freakishly urges her to drop it, while she resolves to investigate the mystery herself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: The Macaulay Company, 1926
653 _aDetective and mystery stories
653 _aYoung women -- Fiction
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
653 _aMotion picture industry -- Fiction
653 _aThrillers (Fiction)
653 _aAstoria (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
700 1 _aGage, George W.,
_d1887-1957
856 4 _uhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Haunting_Hand/ieOB-aPQk_QC?hl=en&gbpv=0
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78094
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