The Whispering Man (1908) is a novel by Henry Kitchell Webster.
Written at the height of Webster's career as a popular author of
magazine serials, The Whispering Man is a story of romance,
mystery, and murder. Filled with twists and complicated motives,
The Whispering Man remains an underappreciated whodunnit over a
century after it appeared in print. "It is strange that we should
have been talking about Dr. Marshall that very night, I and my new
friend and neighbor, across our little table in the restaurant.
Talking about him we were, and at considerable length, too, before
I bought the paper that had the news of his death in it." Out to
dinner with his friend Arthur Jeffrey, a painter, Drew learns of
the death of Dr. Roscoe Marshall, a prominent alienist, from
natural causes. Only moments before, they had been discussing
Marshall's work in relation to Drew's expertise in legal evidence,
to which Jeffrey had responded by detailing his portrait work for
Marshall's wife. As it turns out, Madeline Marshall, nee
Cartwright, is a former love interest of Drew's, and the discussion
has loosened a painful memory within him. Shocked by the news of
the doctor's death, Drew looks across the dining room to find
Marshall's son, who has come at his mother's request. In the cab
back to their apartment, the young man has one word on his lips:
murder. With a beautifully designed cover and a professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Henry Kitchell Webster's The
Whispering Man is a classic of American mystery fiction reimagined
for modern readers.
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