The great English writer Charles Dickens went down in the history of world literature not only as a master of a realistic novel, but also as the creator of a detective who is not like a work of neither Edgar, nor Arthur Conan Doyle: with special good humor, soft irony, jokes and eccentricities, with an unusual plot full of fantasies, mysteries and secrets, and his novel “Secrets” Edwin Drud “recognized as the top of the detective genre.
… The main character of this short story, a young Englishman, accidentally learns about a ghost house – a gloomy mansion located near the city. Incredible is happening there! The last residents of the house in horror fled from there, throwing all the property. In one of the rooms, a white woman appears in a hood, a ghost of swamp fever lives in the other, and sinister howls are heard from the attic and bells call themselves. “These are all prejudices!” – says the gentleman. It is educated enough not to believe in terrible stories. And he decides – for the experiment! – Set in the mansion with bad glory …
Author
Dickens Charles
Translator
Petrova A.
Publisher
Bertelsmann, 2014
Series
Detective in your pocket
Genre
Classical foreign prose
16+
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