Mystery
At the Villa Rose, in Four acts
1900·232 pages
A French detective probes a strangling and jewel theft at a Riviera villa, racing to clear a missing young companion.
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A French detective probes a strangling and jewel theft at a Riviera villa, racing to clear a missing young companion.
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The place: Aix-les-Bains, a lakeside town in southeast France, popular for vacations of the well-to-do.
The players:
(1) The young Englishman, Harry Wethermill, who, after a brilliant career at Oxford and at Munich, had applied his scientific genius and made a fortune for himself at the age of twenty-eight.
(2) Mr. Ricardo, approaching the fifties in age; a widower — "a state greatly to his liking, for he avoided at once the irksomeness of marriage and the reproaches justly leveled at t...
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Sexual content
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Period romance and attraction; kissing and courtship without explicit content
Violence & gore
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Strangulation murder and binding; crime violence without graphic gore
Profanity
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No strong profanity present
Substance use
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Social drinking; chloroform used to subdue a victim
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ representation depicted
Religious content
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Brief conventional period references to faith
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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Spiritualism, mediumship, and séances central to the mystery
Political content
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No political or ideological messaging present
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide content
Abuse & suffering
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Victim strangled; maid chloroformed and tied; coercion themes
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