The haunting hand by Walter Adolphe Roberts
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The 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.)
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| Author | Roberts, Walter Adolphe, 1886-1962 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Gage, George W., 1887-1957 |
| LoC No. | 26006472 |
| Title | The haunting hand |
| Original Publication | New York: The Macaulay Company, 1926. |
| Credits | an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Detective and mystery stories |
| Subject | Young women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | Motion picture industry -- Fiction |
| Subject | Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Subject | Astoria (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78094 |
| Release Date | Mar 2, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 7364 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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