Exiled by an unhappy love, Prince Zaleski lives in a ruined English abbey surrounded by mummies, jewels and drugs. When his friend brings him puzzles, he solves them by pure reasoning: the death of a peer of an ancient race, a stolen stone of the Edmundsbury monks, and a wave of suicides tied to a secret society.
An extravagant, influential detective book of the 1890s, a cult classic of the genre. Download the free EPUB.