The barge of haunted lives by J. Aubrey Tyson
"The barge of haunted lives" by J. Aubrey Tyson is a novel written in the early 20th century. It frames a suite of interlinked mysteries in which financier Hewitt Westfall gathers men and women with “haunted lives” aboard a theatrically furnished barge to unravel the tangled fates binding them—fates that seem to converge on a veiled young aeronaut (Princess Maranotti) and a looming enigma called the Rajiid Buddha. Central figures include the
grim duckhunter Colonel Canbeck, the Veiled Aeronaut, and a roster of strangely titled guests such as the Fugitive Bridegroom. Expect a blend of adventure, psychological suspense, and story-within-a-story revelations. The opening of this novel follows Colonel Canbeck in the Long Island marshes as a seaplane abandons a beautiful stranger, whom he escorts to a mysterious barge whose opulent, eerie salon belongs to Westfall. Westfall explains his “Barge of Haunted Lives” and convenes a dinner of guests known only by sobriquets, bidding the veiled young woman to listen unseen as each man tells his part in her hidden story. The first tale—by the Fugitive Bridegroom—relates a fogbound collision at sea, his survival aboard a burned derelict reached by a dangling rope, nights of thirst and uncanny happenings with bats, a crone, and the vampire-like Laquella, followed by rescue, recovery, and a later romance with Paula Trevison that culminates in marriage. As the couple boards a liner for their honeymoon, his unshakable dread persists, and the scene breaks off just as they are about to sail. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Tyson, J. Aubrey (John Aubrey), 1870-1930 |
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| LoC No. | 23004980 |
| Title | The barge of haunted lives |
| Original Publication | New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. |
| Credits | Tom Trussel, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Detective and mystery stories |
| Subject | Gems -- Theft -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77879 |
| Release Date | Feb 7, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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