# The Secret House — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Secret House by Edgar Wallace.

- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/i.md): A mysterious veiled man, Mr. Brown, hires the impoverished foreigner Count Poltavo as an assistant for his scandal sheet 'The Gossip's Corner', which collects compromising information about the upper classes for blackmai
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/ii.md): Two men are shot dead outside Mr. Farrington's house in Brakely Square. T. B. Smith investigates and deduces a third person was involved. He finds a gold scent bottle with the initials 'C. D.' in the area, linking Lady C
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/iii.md): T. B. Smith works late at Scotland Yard during a dense fog, investigating the blackmailer Montague Fallock. He compares fingerprints from a letter to Lady Constance Dex and confirms Fallock's identity. Superintendent Ela
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/iv.md): In a thick London fog, Frank Doughton and Doris Gray attend the theatre with her guardian Mr. Farrington and Lady Dinsmore. A newsboy delivers a cryptic warning to Farrington, mentioning 'T.B.S.' and surveillance. Farrin
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/v.md): Count Poltavo and Mr. Farrington discuss their secret venture in a sordid room, with Poltavo pressing for full disclosure and proving his worth by revealing his knowledge of T. B. Smith's surveillance. Meanwhile, the new

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- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [The Reading of the Will](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/x.md)
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xvii.md)
- [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xix.md)
- [The Last Hand](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xx.md)
- [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/xxi.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_house_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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