Загадка Эдгара По

Anglii͡a vremen Regentstva, 1819 god. Vopreki otsutstvii͡u rekomendat͡siĭ Tomas Shild poluchaet mesto pomoshchnika uchiteli͡a v prigorode Londona. Sredi ego uchenikov - i͡unyĭ amerikanet͡s Ėdgar Po, priemnyĭ syn Allanov, i ego luchshiĭ drug, izbalovannyĭ nezhenka Charlʹz Frant. Malʹchiki udivitelʹno pokhozhi drug na druga. . . Tomas vli͡ubli͡aetsi͡a v krasivui͡u, no ne slishkom schastlivui͡u matʹ Charlʹza i postepenno uvi͡azaet v pautine chuzhikh semeĭnykh taĭn i intrig. Kogda na zadvorkakh stolit͡sy nakhodi͡at obezobrazhennyĭ trup, vse uliki ukazyvai͡ut na semʹi͡u Frant. Ponevole vti͡anutyĭ v ėtu zaputannui͡u istorii͡u, Shild ponimaet, chto u nego bolee chem dostatochno prichin dli͡a bespokoĭstva. A vskore vyi͡asni͡aetsi͡a, chto v t͡sentre ėtikh zhutkikh sobytiĭ figuriruet malenʹkiĭ amerikanet͡s. . . Kniga vkhodit v top-10 luchshikh detektivnykh romanov desi͡atiletii͡a po versii Sunday Times.

Regency England, 1819. Despite the lack of references, Thomas Shield gets a job as a teacher's assistant in a London suburb. Among his students are the young American Edgar Poe, the adopted son of the Allans, and his best friend, the spoiled sissy Charles Frant. The boys are surprisingly similar to each other. . . Thomas falls in love with Charles's beautiful but not too happy mother and gradually gets bogged down in a web of other people's family secrets and intrigues. When a disfigured corpse is found on the outskirts of the capital, all the evidence points to the Frant family. Involuntarily drawn into this complicated story, Shield realizes that he has more than enough reasons to worry. And soon it turns out that a little American is at the center of these terrible events. . . The book is among the top 10 best detective novels of the decade according to the Sunday Times.