House of a Thousand Candles
Author: first_name: Meredith
last_name: Nicholson
Language: English
Year: 1905

A top ten bestseller of 1906, <i>The House of a Thousand Candles</i> is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa for the reading of his grandfather’s will. In it, he stands to inherit his grandfather’s estate, but only if he can remain for one year in residence at the old man’s unfinished “House of a Thousand Candles” in Annandale, Indiana, with only his grandfather’s mysterious valet for company. If he