The Silver Hatchet E-Book

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Herausgeber: SAMPI Books
• Kategorie: Krimi
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 28

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

In a snow-shrouded European city, a sudden and brutal crime unsettles students, professors, and investigators alike. Their only clue is a strange silver hatchet that seems to reappear in the most unlikely circumstances. As tension rises, those drawn to the object find themselves caught between rational explanations and an eerie sense that something darker is unfolding. Curiosity becomes danger as the mystery tightens around everyone involved.

Leseprobe

The Silver Hatchet

Arthur Conan Doyle

SYNOPSIS

In a snow-shrouded European city, a sudden and brutal crime unsettles students, professors, and investigators alike. Their only clue is a strange silver hatchet that seems to reappear in the most unlikely circumstances. As tension rises, those drawn to the object find themselves caught between rational explanations and an eerie sense that something darker is unfolding. Curiosity becomes danger as the mystery tightens around everyone involved.

Keywords

Mystery, Curse, Revenge

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The Silver Hatchet

On the 3rd of December 1861, Dr. Otto Von Hopstein, Regius Professor of Comparative Anatomy of the University of Buda-Pesth, and Curator of the Academical Museum, was foully and brutally murdered within a stone-throw of the entrance to the college quadrangle.

Besides the eminent position of the victim and his popularity amongst both students and townsfolk, there were other circumstances which excited public interest very strongly, and drew general attention throughout Austria and Hungary to this murder. The Pesther Abendblatt of the following day had an article upon it, which may still be consulted by the curious, and from which I translate a few passages giving a succinct account of the circumstances under which the crime was committed, and the peculiar features in the case which puzzled the Hungarian police.