# The Lone Inn: A Mystery

Author: Hume, Fergus, 1859-1932

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55310

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Lone+Inn%3A+A+Mystery+Hume&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

If there be aught in presentiments I was well warned by that first glimpse of the inn. The monstrous bulk of gables, sloping roofs, and lean chimneys, hunched blackly against the sky, would have scared a bolder spirit than mine. All day I had walked under blue sky, between green hedgerows, with light heart and whistling lip. Confronted in the twilight by so sinister a scene I felt qualmish. Ragged clouds dropped their fringes over sullen western red, around spread the salt marshes, evil in their desolation, and I with chilled blood stared at the lonely mansion dominating the outlook. Here, thought I, an adventure awaits me. The hour, the house, the scene, hint at romance, and that of the...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lone-inn-a-mystery-55310/chapters/3/index.md)