num_pages: 116
description: In The House in the Mist weary traveler Hugh Austin arrives seeking food and lodging for the night. Enter sir; you are the first to arrive but the others can not be far behind he is told. What others? he wonders gazing at a stern portrait hanging on the wall. He finds he has chanced upon the gathering of friends and relatives of the man in the portrait. An inheritance is to be divided all concerned must be present by the appointed hour. And this inheritance is so substantial that violence murder and vengeance from beyond the grave all await among the heirs. . . .
language: English
title: The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green, Fiction, Thrillers, Mystery & Detective, Literary
publisher: Aegypan