Elisa Minden is due to be married to a wealthy scholar Humphrey Orford. But as the wedding day draws near she starts to wonder about Mr Orford’s first wife, who died twenty years before, and begins to unravel a mystery.

This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror. “Scoured Silk” by Marjorie Bowen (1918).

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About the story:

"Scoured Silk” by Marjorie Bowen. First published as “Crimes of Old London – The Scoured Silk” in All Story Weekly, June 2018. First collected in “The Bishop of Hell, and Other Stories” by Marjorie Bowen (pub. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1949).

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