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The second volume continues the provincial mystery as tensions peak around a looming trial and the social consequences it brings. Courtroom drama alternates with private scenes of strained engagements and furtive meetings, while local gossip, financial motives, and romantic hesitation complicate loyalties. A physician's growing suspicions, episodes of concealment and flight, and encounters at country houses and villas push the investigation forward, revealing hidden motives and fraught family ambitions. The narrative balances suspenseful investigation with domestic detail, moving toward disclosures that test relationships and threaten reputations in a tight-knit community.

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Title: In the Dead of Night: A Novel. Volume 2 (of 3)

Author: T. W. Speight

Release date: September 21, 2018 [eBook #57946]
Most recently updated: May 18, 2021

Language: English

Credits: Charles Bowen

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT: A NOVEL. VOLUME 2 (OF 3) ***

IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT

A Novel.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON.
1874.

(All rights reserved.)

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.

CHAPTER I. THE EVE OF THE TRIAL
CHAPTER II. THE TRIAL
CHAPTER III. A BOTTLE OF BURGUNDY
CHAPTER IV. DR. DRAYTON’S SUSPICIONS
CHAPTER V. HIDE AND SEEK
CHAPTER VI. FLOWN
CHAPTER VII. GENERAL ST. GEORGE
CHAPTER VIII. CUPID AT PINCOTE
CHAPTER IX. AT THE VILLA PAMPHILI
CHAPTER X. BACK AGAIN AT PARK NEWTON
CHAPTER XI. MRS. MCDERMOTT WANTS HER MONEY
CHAPTER XII. FOOTSTEPS IN THE ROOM
CHAPTER XIII. THE SQUIRE’S TRIBULATION