Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she would finally have an easy job in which she is treated well, and inherit her uncle's money after his death. But then she falls in love with the wrong man. When her uncle is poisoned, suspicion falls upon her. How would she be able to clear her name? What really happened to her uncle? This is a first rate murder mystery, for fans of Wilkie Collins. Yet it is also a story about love: family love, romantic love, and the love we bear for our community. - Summary by Stav Nisser.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Plunged in the Depth of Helpless Poverty
27:02 - Chapter 2
O World, thy Slippery Turns!
18:03 - Chapter 3
The True Metal
09:18 - Chapter 4
Had the Chance been with us that has not been
14:27 - Chapter 5
Sibyl Faunthorpe's Diary
36:43 - Chapter 6
The Elite of Redcastle
12:23 - Chapter 7
Drifting into Haven
14:40 - Chapter 8
The Return of the Prodigal
16:13 - Chapter 9
Uncle Trenchard
09:51 - Chapter 10
Sibyl takes the Lead
13:02 - Chapter 11
How Stephen Trenchard Forgives
22:02 - Chapter 12
Love, then, and Hope of Richer Store
32:10 - Chapter 13
The Sweets of Life
17:43 - Chapter 14
Making Ready for Victory
16:24 - Chapter 15
Town and Country
32:49 - Chapter 16
A Mysterious Visitor
34:31 - Chapter 17
The Wanderer's Return
17:12 - Chapter 18
At Arm's Length
19:10 - Chapter 19
A Dangerous Triumph
36:47 - Chapter 20
Half Confidence
14:01 - Chapter 21
Received by the County
13:39 - Chapter 22
Jenny's Visitor
19:27 - Chapter 23
Will Fortune never come with both hands full?
34:01 - Chapter 24
Startling Information
26:26 - Chapter 25
Town Talk
14:07 - Chapter 26
Between Love and Gold
17:43 - Chapter 27
Sir Wilford has his own Way
20:58 - Chapter 28
Marion is raised to DIstinction
22:21 - Chapter 29
At the How
13:10 - Chapter 30
Tilberry Steeplechase
45:43 - Chapter 31
Joel Pilgrim
18:19 - Chapter 32
Alexis Comes to Grief
22:54 - Chapter 33
Fallen from the Wayside
10:31 - Chapter 34
Good Samaritans
22:59 - Chapter 35
Bitter Almonds
23:07 - Chapter 36
Village Slander
13:57 - Chapter 37
Trot's History
15:36 - Chapter 38
Gaining Time
20:17 - Chapter 39
At Bay
13:04 - Chapter 40
On the Treshold of a Discovery
24:38 - Chapter 41
A Father's Claim
16:37 - Chapter 42
A Wedding Eve
22:37 - Chapter 43
The Passing-Bell
19:25 - Chapter 44
Dark Surmises
17:20 - Chapter 45
In the Surgery
12:32 - Chapter 46
Stephen Trenchard surprises his Friends
24:22 - Chapter 47
It is not now as it has been of yore
45:18 - Chapter 48
'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise
15:44 - Chapter 49
But here is one who loves you as of old
17:36 - Chapter 50
Alexis Investigates
33:56 - Chapter 51
Mr. Levison Cross-examines
25:41 - Chapter 52
The Podmores think of Emigration
19:53 - Chapter 53
Commited for Trial
29:49 - Chapter 54
A Dark Tale Darkly FInished
14:19 - Chapter 55
Epilog
08:50