Ten sign. Somoza H.K.

Victorian England, Cortesmouth. In Clarendon House, “Gentlemen to rest with shaken nerves”, a new guest arrives-Charles Dodgson, already famous as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderlands,-his nerves are very shook. Charles Dodzhson dreams of ominous dreams - his own characters prophesy him and his acquaintances blood, death and catastrophes of obscure nature, and these predictions come true again and again. To whom to contact such a mystery, if not to Mr. X, who is intelligible, the back of any human acts? This blind and crazy anachoret, the singer of rationality, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, reveals terrible secrets, without leaving the room, only by the power of deduction - but how will his new battle with the “Union of Ten” end?

Jose Carlos Somoza - a brilliant Spanish writer, whose novels are translated into several dozen languages, laureate of the Golden Dagger Prize and the owner of many other literary awards, the creator of multi -layer worlds, where very terrible affairs are done, the author of fantastic, philosophical , historical thrillers and horror. In the “sign of ten”, the continuation of the “Study in Black Tones”, the infernally insightful Mr. X and his faithful, ironic, strong and sensitive nurse Ann McAri are returned, and with them actors, butafors and spectators of brutal underground theaters are involved in unpredictable intrigue. , famous psychiatrists and, of course, Arthur Conan Doyle.