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Golden Glow
Harry Irving Shumway · 1923
When a touring car breaks down beside a cottage called Golden Glow, an ordinary roadside stop becomes a comic haunted-house mystery involving a missing man, a railroad wreck and a trail of Prohibition-era whiskey.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 21 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
THE COUNTRY ROAD AND WRECKA rural road, the abandoned cottage and the railroad bend form one chain of clues.
THE GOLDEN GLOW COTTAGEThe woodbine-covered house hides an armed welcome.
Golden Glow — Connections
Golden Glow — Cast
Golden Glow — The Cast at the Cottage
Golden Glow — The Cast on the Road
THE ARMED WELCOMEA flower bouquet leads two tourists into an old house and an unexpected challenge.
THE NIGHT RAIDLanterns catch the smugglers at the freight car.
This edition
- Title
- Golden Glow
- Author
- Harry Irving Shumway
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 39 original artworks · 21 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 2 · about 3,801 words
- Reading time
- 15 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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