The Dead Man of Varley Grange

The Dead Man of Varley Grange by Anonymous is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: 'Hallo, Jack! Where are you off to? Going down to the governor's place for Christmas?' Jack Darent, who was in my old regiment, stood drawing on his doeskin gloves upon the 23rd of December the year before last.
He was equipped in a long ulster and top hat, and a hansom, already loaded with a gun-ca This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.