Тайна леди Одли

Molodoĭ advokat Robert Odli, sibarit, predpochitai͡ushchiĭ sudebnoĭ praktike kanareek i sobak, vpervye vstrechaetsi͡a s chuzhim neschastʹem: staryĭ znakomyĭ Roberta, zolotoiskatelʹ Dzhordzh Tolboĭz, ovdovel. Chtoby otvlechʹ Tolboĭza ot pechalʹnykh mysleĭ, Robert priglashaet ego v gosti k svoemu di͡adi͡ushke v starinnui͡u usadʹbu - luchshee mesto na svete. Obshchenie s blagorodnym i velikodushnym sėrom Odli i ego molodoĭ zhenoĭ ledi Odli, samoĭ dobroĭ zhenshchinoĭ vo vsem Soedinennom Korolevstve, nepremenno pomozhet neschastnomu Dzhordzhu perenesti utratu i vernutʹsi͡a k zhizni. No nakanune vstrechi s miledi Tolboĭz bessledno ischezaet - i Robert nachinaet rassledovanie. "Taĭna ledi Odli" (1862) - samai͡a izvestnai͡a kniga britanskoĭ pisatelʹnit͡sy Mėri Ėlizabet Brėddon (1837-1915), obrazet͡s viktorianskogo "sensat͡sionnogo romana" - detektiva s ėlementami velikosvetskoĭ povesti.

Young lawyer Robert Audley, a sybarite who prefers canaries and dogs to judicial practice, meets someone else's misfortune for the first time: Robert's old acquaintance, gold digger George Talboys, is widowed. To distract Talboys from his sad thoughts, Robert invites him to visit his uncle in an old manor house — the best place in the world. Communication with the noble and generous Sir Audley and his young wife Lady Audley, the kindest woman in the whole United Kingdom, will certainly help the unfortunate George to bear the loss and return to life. But on the eve of his meeting with Milady, Talboys disappears without a trace, and Robert begins an investigation. The Mystery of Lady Audley (1862) is the most famous book by the British writer Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837-1915), an example of a Victorian "sensational novel" — a detective story with elements of a high—society novel.