Professor von Holzen walks through the poor streets of The Hague twice a week, admired by the shopkeepers as a good man. He and his partner Roden run a philanthropic enterprise around a product called malgamite, and the visitors drawn into their circle begin to see the seamy side of their charity.
A tight, ironic thriller of finance and conscience; its portraits of Jewish characters carry the prejudices of 1898. Download the free EPUB.