Product Overview
This bundle of two gothic mystery and books includes The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier and The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
In The House on the Strand, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present. Condition is good. Shelf wear, some scratches on the cover. Pages are darkened with age, but the spine is tight. A good readable copy.
In The House of the Seven Gables, living in a mansion known for its unique roof of seven gables, Hepzibah Pyncheon finds herself destitute and in desperate need to make ends meet. To further her struggle, she is now in care of her brother who had just been released after a thirty-year prison sentence for murder. But there is more to the Pyncheon ancestry that involves the history of the mansion. A Pyncheon ancestor had accused a man named Matthew Maule of witchcraft solely so that the Pyncheon family could seize this man's land. Maule, before being hanged and his property wrongfully seized by the Pyncheon family, cursed the ground on which the mansion with the seven gables would be built. Murder, vindication, and even the supernatural unfold under the renowned seven gabled roof of this mysterious New England mansion. Condition is acceptable: This was an inexpensive edition that is showing its age in discoloration of the pages. It's unread and the spine is tight.
