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 Project Gutenberg 2025-07-22 Public domain in the USA. 468 Webster, Henry Kitchell 1875 1932 The Corbin necklace $aNew York :$bA. L. Burt Company, $c1926. Susan E., David E. Brown, Edo Reich, Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Corbin Necklace" by Henry Kitchell Webster is a mystery novel written in the early 20th century. It follows a prominent Midwestern family on the eve of Judith Corbin’s wedding, when an infamous pearl necklace becomes the center of danger, pride, and intrigue. Narrated by a nearby family friend confined with a broken leg, the story watches sharp-eyed young Punch, reluctant bride Judy, their formidable grandmother, their strained mother Victoria, and returning Uncle Alec as a vanished heirloom exposes hidden loyalties and fault lines. The opening of the novel sets the scene: Punch frets that newspapers have announced the pearls as Judy’s wedding gift, the neighbor-narrator sketches the Corbin dynasty and its iron-willed matriarch, and Judy arrives home ambivalent about her marriage to Bruce Applebury. At The Oaks, Punch discovers the safe once left unlocked; tensions flare between Victoria and Mrs. Corbin over who should have the necklace; Judy hints at her grandmother’s morphine use; and Uncle Alec reappears from the Philippines. On the day the guests arrive, Judy abruptly feigns a sprained ankle after a jolting encounter, and that evening Mrs. Corbin invites her to wear the pearls—but the case proves empty, prompting Victoria to urge secrecy while Alec argues for detectives. The party continues: Judy hides a hastily delivered note in a vase, Punch keeps a nocturnal watch, glimpses a man in torn, pale pajamas heading upstairs, and encounters Miss Digby in the hall, until morning brings Punch a sudden idea about where to look, cutting the opening on a taut cliff. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/the-corbin-necklace/mode/2up 20250502115934webster 1926 US Reading ease score: 83.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Detective and mystery stories Jewelry theft -- Fiction Families -- Fiction Weddings -- Fiction PS Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: American Literature 397204 2025-07-30T08:38:25.285452 text/html 372032 2025-07-22T01:29:46 text/html 697138 2025-07-30T08:38:32.594417 application/epub+zip 693596 2025-07-30T08:38:26.986410 application/epub+zip 407585 2025-07-30T08:38:25.987408 application/epub+zip 1531411 2025-07-30T08:38:36.785367 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1264584 2025-07-30T08:38:31.860421 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 356134 2025-07-30T08:38:24.285418 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 336215 2025-07-22T01:29:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14588 2025-07-30T08:38:36.937367 application/rdf+xml 18889 2025-07-30T08:38:26.323403 image/jpeg 2248 2025-07-30T08:38:26.208402 image/jpeg 1209398 2025-07-30T08:38:25.335397 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia