Book description
It changes its shape at will. It compels others to do its
bidding. It inspires terror in all who look on it .
Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of Westminster, but
when 'The Beetle' arrives from Egypt to hunt him down, the dark and
gruesome secret that haunts him is dragged into the light. Bent on
revenge for a crime committed against the disciples of Isis, the
Beetle terrorizes its victims and will stop at nothing until it has
satisfaction.
Six people's worlds are turned upside down by murder, mesmerism and
human sacrifice as they struggle to save their sanity and above all,
their lives.
Richard Marsh (1857-1915) was the pseudonym of the British author
born Richard Bernard Heldman. He is best known for his supernatural
thriller The Beetle: A Mystery, published in the same year as Bram
Stoker's Dracula and initially even more popular. Heldman was educated
at Eton and Oxford University. Several of the prolific Marsh's novels
were published posthumously.
