Project Gutenberg 2012-10-21 Public domain in the USA. 184 Roberts, Theodore Goodridge 1877 1953 Roberts, T. G. (Theodore Goodridge) Goodridge Roberts, Theodore Roberts, George Edward Theodore Roberts, G. E. Theodore (George Edward Theodore) Goss, John 1886 1963 Rayton: A Backwoods Mystery D Alexander, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Rayton: A Backwoods Mystery" by Theodore Goodridge Roberts is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the peculiar happenings in the settlement of Samson's Mill after the arrival of Reginald Baynes Rayton. During a friendly poker game, a marked card bears two unsettling red crosses, causing distress among the players and encapsulating the community in an atmosphere punctuated by superstition and suspicion. At the start of the narrative, we are introduced to Rayton and several residents of the settlement engaged in a poker game. When young David Marsh receives a card marked with red crosses, Jim Harley's curious behavior raises doubts among the players. Harley's agitation leads him to counsel Marsh to stay away from his sister, Nell, igniting a rivalry. Afterward, David faces a more immediate crisis as he suffers a canoe accident in the Teakettle River, which leaves him with a broken arm, intensifying the anxiety surrounding the card's supernatural implications and intertwining the lives of the characters with themes of love, rivalry, and hidden motivations in this rural setting. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41122/41122-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 92.9 (5th grade). Very easy to read. en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels 386503 2025-06-16T16:33:45.692107 text/html 392391 2021-04-16T17:07:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1276765 2025-06-16T16:33:51.457072 application/epub+zip 1282427 2025-06-16T16:33:46.597153 application/epub+zip 204713 2025-06-16T16:33:46.140111 application/epub+zip 1412732 2025-06-16T16:33:55.530045 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1383606 2025-06-16T16:33:51.003131 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 306711 2022-09-18T18:52:57.571481 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 362790 2025-06-16T16:33:44.807123 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 362749 2021-04-16T17:10:24 text/plain; charset=utf-8 16801 2025-06-16T16:33:55.716066 application/rdf+xml 16997 2025-06-16T16:33:46.233095 image/jpeg 3124 2025-06-16T16:33:46.185120 image/jpeg 1177933 2025-06-16T16:33:45.754105 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia