Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, And Other Stories: Bestseller Mystery & ThrillerBeyond Books Hub, 1. 1. 2021 - 163 strán (strany) ♥♥ Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, And Other Stories: Bestseller Mystery & Thriller by Oscar Wilde ♥♥ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes:Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: The Canterville Ghost: The Sphinx Without a Secret: The Model Millionaire; and, The Portrait of Mr. W. H. ♥♥ Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, And Other Stories: Bestseller Mystery & Thriller by Oscar Wilde ♥♥ This story was first published in The Court and Society Review, in late 1887. The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder. ♥♥ Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, And Other Stories: Bestseller Mystery & Thriller by Oscar Wilde ♥♥ His first attempted murder victim is his elderly Aunt Clementina, who suffers from heartburn. Pretending it is medicine, Lord Arthur gives her a capsule of poison, telling her to take it only when she has an attack of heartburn. Reading a telegram in Venice some time later, he finds that she has died and victoriously returns to London to learn that she has bequeathed him some property. Sorting through the inheritance, his intended wife Sybil Merton finds the poison pill, untouched; thus Lord Arthur's aunt died from natural causes and he finds himself in need of a new victim. ♥♥ Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, And Other Stories: Bestseller Mystery & Thriller by Oscar Wilde ♥♥ After some deliberation, he obtains a bomb, disguised as a carriage-clock, from a jovial German and sends it anonymously to a distant relative, the Dean of Chichester. When the bomb goes off, however, the only damage done seems like a novelty trick, and the Dean's son spends his afternoons making tiny, harmless explosions with the clock. In despair, Lord Arthur believes that his marriage plans are doomed, only to encounter, late at night on the bank of the River Thames, the same palm-reader who had told his fortune. Realising the best possible outcome, he pushes the man off a parapet into the river where he dies. A verdict of suicide is returned at the inquest and Lord Arthur happily goes on to marry. In a twist, the palmister is denounced as a fraud, leaving the moral of the story to show the power of suggestion.The story was the basis of the second part of the three-part 1943 film Flesh and Fantasy. |
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... finally managed to get downstairs without dropping her scent-bottle more than twice. All this time Lord Arthur Savile had remained standing by the fireplace, with the same feeling of dread over him, the same sickening sense of coming ...
... finally . ' Ah , I see it on the sofa ! Good evening . ' ' Mr. Podgers , I must insist on your giving me a straightforward answer to a question I am going to put to you . ' ' Another time , Lord Arthur , but the Duchess is anxious . I ...
... finally came across a handsomely - bound edition of the Pharmacopoeia , and a copy of Erskine's Toxicology , edited by Sir Mathew Reid , the President of the Royal College of Physicians , and one of the oldest members of the Buckingham ...
... finally persuaded him that if he stayed at Danieli's by himself he would be moped to death, and on the morning of the 15th they started, with a strong nor'-east wind blowing, and a rather choppy sea. The sport was excellent, and the ...
... finally persuaded him that if he stayed at Danieli's by himself he would be moped to death, and on the morning of the 15th they started, with a strong nor'-east wind blowing, and a rather choppy sea. The sport was excellent, and the ...