The Room In The Dragon Volant: A Mystery/Detective, Gothic Classic By J. Sheridan Le Fanu! AAA+++

Richard Beckett, a young and naive Englishman on his way to Paris in 1815, happens upon a carriage that had almost overturned. He helps right the carriage and notices a veiled woman within but could not catch her features. He did, however, receive the grateful appreciation of the old gentleman whose carriage this was. Beckett is strangely taken with the mysterious woman and, with a romantic impulse follows the carriage to an inn. The old gentleman, he learns, is the Compte de St. Alyre, a miserly and mean-spirited man. The mystery woman is his very young wife whose beauty is the exact opposite of her elderly husband. Beckett also learns that the young woman is unhappy and that the Compte has married her for her fortune.

Beckett also meets, and gains the confidence of the Marquis d'Hommeville who is travelling under a pseudomyn on a political mission of grave importance.