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The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu, "Uncle Silas" is one of the first of the locked room; mystery genre, and served as the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Firm of Girdlestone". Teenage heiress Maud Ruthyn lives in a mansion with her withdrawn father. She slowly finds out that a man named Silas Ruthyn, a reprobate with a dark mysterious past, is her uncle, although he is now apparently a good Christian. Her uncle's mansion holds a locked room where a man to whom Silas owed a great deal of money allegedly took his own life. Maud's father is steadfast in upholding his brother's innocence, but Maud herself grows increasingly fearful and unsure.
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