Persten Tota

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Artur Konan Dojl izvesten v pervuju ochered kak sozdatel blistatelnoj serii knig o Sherloke Kholmse, odnako iz-pod ego pera vyshlo i mnozhestvo drugikh, ne menee ljubopytnykh detektivnykh rasskazov. Proizvedenija, voshedshie v etot sbornik, malo znakomy rossijskomu chitatelju, no stol zhe uvlekatelny, kak i samye izvestnye tvorenija avtora. Zakhvatyvajuschij sjuzhet sochetaetsja v nikh s elementami mistiki i atmosferoj tajny. Pochemu smotritel odnogo iz otdelov Luvra tak pokhozh na egiptjanina i dlja chego emu ponadobilsja drevnij persten s kristallom gornogo khrustalja? Sovpadenie li, chto dva zhenikha svoenravnoj krasavitsy miss Nortkot pogibli pri zagadochnykh obstojatelstvakh? Kakaja uzhasnaja opasnost mozhet taitsja v komnate spetsialista po vostochnym jazykam Edvarda Bellingema? Smozhet li otvazhnyj Dzhojs-Armstrong raskryt tajnu ischeznovenija aviatorov?.. Neobjasnimye sovpadenija, sverkhestestvennye proisshestvija, slozhnye perepletenija sudeb, derzkie prestuplenija - vot s chem pridjotsja stolknutsja gerojam rasskazov.Knigu proilljustrirovala khudozhnitsa Anna Khopta.

368 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.