Length6h 52m
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Excerpt: "One evening last year I perceived in the waiting-room of my newspaper, Le Matin, a man dressed in black, his face heavy with the darkest despair, whose dry, dead eyes seemed to receive the images of things like unmoving mirrors. He was seated; and there rested on his knees a sandalwood box inlaid with polished steel. An office-boy told me that he had sat there motionless, silent, awaiting my coming, for three mortal hours. I invited this figure of despair into my office and offered him a chair. He did not take it; he walked straight to my desk, and set down on it the sandalwood box. Then he said to me in an expressionless, far-away voice: "Monsieur, this box is yours. My friend, M. Theophrastus Longuet, charged me to bring it to you." He bowed and was going to the door, when I stopped him. "For goodness sake, don't run away like that!" I said sharply. "I can't receive this box without knowing what it contains.""
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Rating★★★ 3.4 (53)
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GenreLiterary Classics, Mystery and Thriller
Length6 hrs 52 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1HISTORICAL PREFACE THE SANDALWOOD BOX
2CHAPTER I M. THEOPHRASTUS LONGUET DESIRES TO IMPROVE HIS MIND AND VISITS HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
3CHAPTER II THE SCRAP OF PAPER
4CHAPTER III THEOPHRASTUS LONGUET BURSTS INTO SONG
5CHAPTER IV ADOLPHE LECAMUS IS FLABBERGASTED BUT FRANK
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6CHAPTER V THEOPHRASTUS SHOWS THE BLACK FEATHER
7CHAPTER VI THE PORTRAIT
8CHAPTER VII THE YOUNG CARTOUCHE
9CHAPTER VIII THE WAX MASK
10CHAPTER IX STRANGE POSITION OF A LITTLE VIOLET CAT
11CHAPTER X THE EXPLANATION OF THE STRANGE ATTITUDE OF A LITTLE VIOLET CAT
12CHAPTER XI THEOPHRASTUS MAINTAINS THAT HE DID NOT DIE ON THE PLACE DE GRÈVE
13CHAPTER XII THE HOUSE OF STRANGE WORDS
14CHAPTER XIII THE CURE THAT MISSED
15CHAPTER XIV THE OPERATION BEGINS
16CHAPTER XV THE OPERATION ENDS
17CHAPTER XVI THE DRAWBACKS OF PSYCHIC SURGERY
18CHAPTER XVII THEOPHRASTUS BEGINS TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN THINGS
19CHAPTER XVIII THE EVENING PAPER
20CHAPTER XIX THE STORY OF THE CALF
21CHAPTER XX THE STRANGE BEHAVIOUR OF AN EXPRESS TRAIN
22CHAPTER XXI THE EARLESS MAN WITH HIS HEAD OUT OF THE WINDOW
23CHAPTER XXII IN WHICH THE CATASTROPHE WHICH APPEARS ON THE POINT OF BEING EXPLAINED, GROWS YET MORE INEXPLICABLE
24CHAPTER XXIII THE MELODIOUS BRICKLAYER
25CHAPTER XXIV THE SOLUTION IN THE CATACOMBS
26CHAPTER XXV M. MIFROID TAKES THE LEAD
27CHAPTER XXVI M. LONGUET FISHES IN THE CATACOMBS
28CHAPTER XXVII M. MIFROID PARTS FROM THEOPHRASTUS
29CHAPTER XXVIII THEOPHRASTUS GOES INTO ETERNAL EXILE
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