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The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel

by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace

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John Bell is summoned from his London laboratory to investigate the mysterious death of a railway signal-man in Wales, close to the mouth of a lonely tunnel which has the reputation of being haunted. The police seem confident it's murder, and have a suspect in custody, but can Bell demonstrate that other forces are at play?

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released June 19, 2022
Read by Simon Stanhope.

L. T. Meade (Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, 1844–1914) was a prolific author of mystery and suspense stories, dominating the periodicals of the 1880s and 90s. She often wrote in collaboration with medical practitioners, who apparently supplied the scientific details which underpin many of her plots; first with Dr. Clifford Halifax, and later with Robert Eustace (believed to be the pen name of Dr. Eustace Robert Barton, 1854–1943). Robert Eustace is probably best remembered today for his much later collaboration with Dorothy L. Sayers on her 1930 novel 'The Documents of the Case'.

Meade and Eustace created a number of recurring characters, including John Bell, "professional exposer of ghosts, and one who can clear away the mysteries of most haunted houses" – making him in effect a more sceptical counterpart to William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki, the Ghost Finder (who first appeared in print a decade or so later). Bell featured in a series of stories in Cassell’s Magazine in 1897, which were later published in book form under the title 'A Master of Mysteries' in 1898.

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