The methods turns out to be spectacularly bizarre. Bell is fairly sure he knows who was responsible for the theft of a very valuable diamond necklace but he needs to discover how the theft was carried out. With The Eight-Mile Lock things get a lot stranger. Murder is suspected and the police have a suspect but Bell is not so sure that these events are as clear-cut as they seem. In The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel Bell must solve a series of unexplained deaths that have occurred near a railway tunnel. The explanations are rational enough although they are also pleasingly bizarre. The first two stories, The Mystery of the Circular Chamber and The Warder of the Door, are relatively conventional stories of this type dealing with a haunted room in an old house and a family curse involving a door that must always be guarded. The explanations usually involve a crime, and it is generally a strange and outlandish crime. Most of these were co-authored with Eustace Robert Barton (1854–1943) who wrote under the name Robert Eustace.Ī Master of Mysteries, published in 1898, is one of their collections of what could be described as occult detective stories although in fact the hero of these stories, John Bell, is man who specialises in finding rational explanations for apparently occult or inexplicable events such as hauntings. She also wrote in a variety of other genres, including mysteries and occult detective stories. Meade, producing countless stories for girls. Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914) wrote under the name L.
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