The novel begins with the description of the boring and restrained life of a middle manager at a brokerage firm, then quite unexpectedly the police come to his home to arrest him for helping embezzle 12 million francs. He eludes the police, then the narrative has no less than four separate flashbacks that explore the lives of the man's wife, their daughter, their son, and their son's mistress.
100 classic detectives. Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Illustrated : The Gold-Bug, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Innocence of Father Brown, Crime and Punishment and others
Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Emile Gaboriau, E. W. Hornung, M. McDonnell Bodkin, Guy Boothby, Jacques Futrelle, Melville Davisson Post, Ethel Lina White, Emmuska Orczy, Edgar Wallace, Algernon Blackwood, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Anna Katherine Green, Fergus Hume, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy L. Sayers, R. Austin Freeman
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