An Exclusive Mystery Chronicles Short Story

Midnight at the Manor

by by Jessie Clark

Some stories are better left untold. Investigative journalist Emma Hartwell arrives at Blackwood Manor on a stormy night to interview Lady Catherine Blackwood about the locked-room disappearance of her husband forty years earlier. As midnight nears and the house closes in, Emma realizes the old mystery has only been waiting for someone curious enough to open the wrong door.

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About the Book

Some stories are better left untold.

Investigative journalist Emma Hartwell arrives at Blackwood Manor on a rain-soaked night, following an invitation from Lady Catherine Blackwood: widow of a man who vanished from his locked study forty years ago.

The police closed the case. The village kept its rumors. The manor kept its secrets.

But Catherine has finally agreed to tell Emma what happened the night Lord Victor Blackwood disappeared. As the storm cuts the house off from the world and midnight draws closer, Emma realizes the old mystery is not dead. It has only been waiting for someone curious enough to open the wrong door.

Midnight at the Manor is a compact gothic mystery short story about family secrets, locked rooms, and the price of asking questions in a house built to keep its answers.

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Midnight at the Manor

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