The Beetle A Mystery - Richard Marsh

A Story About A Mysterious Oriental Figure Who Pursues A British Politician To London, Where He Wreaks Havoc With His Powers Of Hypnosis And Shape-shifting, Marshs Novel Is Of A Piece With Other Sensational Turn-of-the-century Fictions Such As Stokers Dracula, George Du Mauriers Trilby, And Sax Rohmers Fu Manchu Novels. Like Dracula And Many Of The Sensation Novels Pioneered By Wilkie Collins And Others In The 1860s, The Beetle Is Narrated From The Perspectives Of Multiple Characters, A Technique In Many Late Nineteenth-century Novels (those Of Wilkie Collins And Stoker, For Example) To Create Suspenserichard Marsh Was The Pseudonym Of The British Author Born Richard Bernard Heldmann.the Title Character Is Mary Louise Burrows. In The First Books Of The Series, She Is A Fifteen-year-old Girl With Unusual Maturity (though The Other Girls In Her Boarding School Find Her Somewhat Priggish).