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Two friends are kidnapped by several masked men, who, to judge by
their manners and their accent are men of the best society. One of
the friends is a doctor, and the masked men say that they need him
to assist a noblewoman, who is about to give birth. When they reach
the house, they find no such noblewoman, only a dead man. Another
man, known only as A.M.C., bursts in at this point and declares
that the man died of opium poisoning. The doctor writes a letter to
a newspaper editor, setting out the facts as he knows them. These
facts are rebutted first by a friend of A.M.C. and then by the
first masked man, who explains the whole story... Eca de Queiroz
wrote this spoof 'mystery' with his friend Ramalho Ortigao,
publishing it in the form of a series of anonymous letters in the
Diario de Noticias between 24 July and 27 September 1870. Many
readers believed the letters to be genuine. As the book progresses,
one sees Eca gradually getting into his stride as a novelist,
equally at home with humour and with human drama. Recently turned
into a major Portuguese feature film it will delight avid Eca fans
and lovers of mysteries."
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