The Chase of the Ruby

Name: The Chase of the Ruby
Author: Marsh, Richard

Marsh, Richard

Adventure stories; Cousins -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Rubies -- Fiction

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      (Oxford University)

                                          The Chase
                                          of the Ruby

                  Seventh Edition of RICHARD MARSH'S

                         MOST STRIKING NOVEL

                With Illustrations by John Williamson

                        THE BEETLE: A Mystery

                         Crown 8vo. Price 6s.

                          *   *   *   *   *

The Speaker says: 'A story of the most terrific kind is duly recorded
in this extremely powerful book. The skill with which its fantastic
horrors are presented to us is undeniable.'

The Daily Graphic says: 'It is the kind of book which you put down
only for the purpose of turning up the gas and making sure that no
person or thing is standing behind your chair; and it is a book which
no one will put down until finished, except for the reason above
described.'

The Glasgow Herald says: 'The weird horror of this being grows upon
the reader. It is difficult, if not impossible, to lay down this book
when once begun.'

The Academy says: '"Dracula," by Mr Bram Stoker, was creepy, but Mr
Marsh goes one, oh! many more than one, better. This surprising and
ingenious story succeeds in producing that sensation of horror which
should make the flesh of even the least susceptible reader creep.'

Answers says: 'Mr Marsh's famous novel is one of the most
enthrallingly interesting narratives of the past few years. I strongly
advise all my readers to order the book at once.'

The Literary World says: 'An ingenious, weird, and thrilling story,
narrated with a clearness of style and a fulness of incident which
hold the reader's attention from first to last.'

The St James's Budget says: 'The frontispiece is a nightmare, and the
terrors are thrillingly described. One is compelled to read it to the
end.'

The Birmingham Daily Gazette says: 'A powerful and vigorous story of a
most terrible character, told with skill and ingenuity. It is even
more strange and mysterious than Bulwer's "Zanoni."'

                          *   *   *   *   *

            London: SKEFFINGTON & SON, 163 Piccadilly, W.
    _Publishers to Her Majesty The Queen and to H.R.H. The Prince_
                              _of Wales_
              And at all Libraries and Railway Bookstalls

                                 THE

                          Chase of the Ruby

                                  BY

                            RICHARD MARSH

                              AUTHOR OF

     'THE BEETLE: A MYSTERY,' 'IN FULL CRY,' 'FRIVOLITIES,' ETC.

                                LONDON
                  SKEFFINGTON & SON, 163 PICCADILLY

                 Publishers to Her Majesty The Queen
                                AND TO
                His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

                                 1900

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The Chase of the Ruby

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