Project Gutenberg 2025-08-01 Public domain in the USA. 1615 Tracy, Louis 1863 1928 Holmes, Gordon Karl Grier : $b The strange story of a man with a sixth sense $aNew York :$bEdward J. Clode, $c1905. Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, S. J. Waters, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Karl Grier : The strange story of a man with a sixth sense" by Louis Tracy is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Karl Grier, a vigorous, big-hearted man endowed with a “sixth sense” he and his friend dub telegnomy—an ability to see and hear events at a distance and to intuit the meanings behind animal and human sounds. Told by a close confidant in a brisk, semi-scientific tone, the story blends adventure, detection, and speculative psychology. Early episodes span India, the sea, and Oxford, as Karl’s gift draws him toward Maggie Hutchinson, the Armenian Constantine, and a shady New York agent named Steindal. The opening of the novel frames Karl’s uncanny faculty and its first proofs: as a child in India he “knows” of a planned tea-garden raid and saves the Hutchinsons, and later on a homeward voyage he pinpoints an overboard passenger, Constantine, for rescue. A sympathetic doctor, Macpherson, muses on Karl’s abnormal sensory power, while schooling in Britain dulls it until a menagerie brawl and other triggers revive it. At Oxford, with his American friend Frank Hooper observing, Karl’s trances sharpen: he glimpses Manhattan Beach and a storm-tossed liner, the Merlin, likely carrying Maggie Hutchinson. Testing himself again, he “travels” to New York, watches Constantine with the theatrical agent Steindal, deciphers a coded cable meant to snare Maggie with a concert offer, and—when a restaurant band begins to play—finds he can hear across the ocean as well as see. The tension peaks when Karl’s focused attention seems to spark Constantine’s shark-vision panic, echoing his earlier near-drowning. The narrator then reveals his long-standing tie to Karl’s family, foreshadowing his role in the unfolding account. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433075765523 20190827111445tracy 1905 US Reading ease score: 70.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Psychic ability -- Fiction PR Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: British Literature 461716 2025-08-01T00:00:09.612548 text/html 436551 2025-07-31T23:12:58 text/html 711412 2025-08-01T00:00:28.882507 application/epub+zip 707670 2025-08-01T00:00:17.567541 application/epub+zip 422104 2025-08-01T00:00:12.310553 application/epub+zip 1483989 2025-08-01T00:00:38.562430 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1216012 2025-08-01T00:00:28.060517 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 416235 2025-08-01T00:00:08.688598 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 396328 2025-07-31T23:12:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 4484 2025-08-01T00:00:38.706432 application/rdf+xml 19087 2025-08-01T00:00:16.949541 image/jpeg 2866 2025-08-01T00:00:16.851550 image/jpeg 1043788 2025-08-01T00:00:09.663565 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