18-year-old girl Elizabeth is dating her favorite boyfriend Henry White, obviously about to kiss when she is in love, but Henry uses a trick instead of kissing, Elizabeth is very suspicious of Henry's feelings for herself, so she asks her brother James.
Because James and Henry are neighbors and good brothers.
In this way, it is obviously a suspenseful reasoning story, but it has an emotionally charged opening, which is worthy of French romanticism.
However, it soon entered the theme, with castles, murders, haunts, and mediums rushing one after another.
Elizabeth also had a suitor, John Danelli, a wealthy second generation with a happy family, but her mother committed suicide in the attic of her castle when he was 12 years old.
His father, Victor, was devastated and had no intention of running it, and the company went bankrupt, but fortunately there was still a castle rental to survive.
The castle was often heard late at night, footsteps could be heard in the deserted attic, tenants were constantly scared away, and haunted stories spread in this small village near Oxford.
Even so, the haunted house has been rented by Mr. and Mrs. Latime, and it has brought prosperity to the two couples.
It turned out that Patrick Latime, who was sold insurance, had a wife Alice who was a medium, and after they lived, they also "opened" the world to Victor and his deceased wife, and there was a dialogue between Victor, and Latimé and his wife became famous in the local area.
James had already facilitated Elizabeth and Henry's bold relationship, looking forward to the development of their marriage, but unfortunately happened, Henry's mother died in a car accident, and his father survived, and Henry fell into the pain of losing his mother.
Henry was born prematurely, was particularly sensitive, and loved circus performances. His father, Arthur White, was a well-known writer, and the conflict between father and son was rising due to the death of his mother, and he often quarreled over it.
One day, Arthur was attacked and fainted in the grove, but Henry has since disappeared. After waking up, Arthur told the police that he saw someone carrying a corpse before following him, but was met with the killer.
One day, 3 years later, the murder reappeared in the haunted attic, and a boy who looked like Henry, Bob Farr, was killed in an airtight attic, and his body lay in the place where John's mother had died.
2 days after Bob's death, Henry appeared, who had been missing for 3 years, thinking that it would make the case clear, but unexpectedly
A week later, Henry's father, Arthur, was shot and died, while Latimé and his wife disappeared.
Just as the police identified the suspects as Mr. and Mrs. Latime, their bodies were found on the couch in the house they rented.
These unsolved cases are from the book The Fourth Door. The author of this book, Paul Holt, a master of contemporary French mystery fiction, is known as "the last defender of the golden age mystery novel".
This book has a different narrative structure than other mystery novels, first of all, the whole story is deliberately divided into 2 parts, the first part tells several bizarre cases in the first person of James.
And solving the case as the second part, explained by Dr. Tuwest, a doctor of criminology, Dr. Tuwest "found the mystery at a glance" but stumped the reader, the case is too reversed.
A matter that was supposed to prevent his father from being deceived, but fell into the situation of "immortal jump", and was almost buried alive. So there is an act of revenge, and it seems that the murderer of the case cannot be hated.
Secondly, when the reader solves the mystery case with the novel, he thinks that this is a fictional story, but unexpectedly, he adds at the end that all cases are real.
And this foreshadowing has set up a suspense, and those who know the truth so well should be witnesses to the case.
The archives of that year show that the same person as James's photo, on the back of the photo, wrote "The person in the photo is not James, but Henry".
Henry, who committed suicide by jumping into the sea, the missing James, who is still alive? This is an unsolvable suspense in this book.
Served, French suspense, romantic literature, bold fantasy, strange ideas, exaggerated techniques.
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