Beetle
Author: first_name: Richard
last_name: Marsh
Language: English
Year: 1897

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. Like <em>Dracula</em> and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, <em>The Beetle</em> is narrated from the perspectives of multiple