Sign of Ten
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Sign of Ten
6.99 €
Victorian England, Portsmouth. A new guest arrives at Clarendon House, "a boarding house for gentlemen with frayed nerves." Charles Dodgson, already famous as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, is on edge. Charles Dodgson has ominous dreams—his own characters prophesy blood, death, and catastrophes of unknown origin for him and his acquaintances, and these predictions come true again and again. Who better to turn to with such a mystery than Mr. X, who understands the underlying motives of all human actions? This blind and insane anchorite, a votary of rationality, a prototype of Sherlock Holmes, solves terrible secrets without leaving his room, using only the power of deduction—but how will his latest battle with the "Union of Ten" end?
José Carlos Somoza is a brilliant Spanish writer whose novels have been translated into dozens of languages. He is a winner of the Golden Dagger Award and numerous other literary awards, a creator of multilayered worlds where terrifying things happen, and the author of science fiction, philosophical, and historical thrillers and horror novels. In "The Sign of Ten," a sequel to "A Study in Black," the infernally perceptive Mr. X and his loyal, ironic, strong, and sensitive nurse, Anne McCarthy, return. Along with them, actors, prop masters, and audience members of brutal underground theaters, renowned psychiatrists, and, of course, Arthur Conan Doyle, are entangled in an unpredictable plot.
José Carlos Somoza is a brilliant Spanish writer whose novels have been translated into dozens of languages. He is a winner of the Golden Dagger Award and numerous other literary awards, a creator of multilayered worlds where terrifying things happen, and the author of science fiction, philosophical, and historical thrillers and horror novels. In "The Sign of Ten," a sequel to "A Study in Black," the infernally perceptive Mr. X and his loyal, ironic, strong, and sensitive nurse, Anne McCarthy, return. Along with them, actors, prop masters, and audience members of brutal underground theaters, renowned psychiatrists, and, of course, Arthur Conan Doyle, are entangled in an unpredictable plot.
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- Все книги цикла The Mister X Trilogy
