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East India Company. Army -- Officers -- Fiction Books
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Arthur Conan Doyle
The mystery of Cloomber
"The Mystery of Cloomber" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a novel first published in 1889. A retired general lives in terror in rural Scotland, haunted by a mysterious crime committed forty years earlier during the First Anglo-Afghan War. Strange sounds accompany him, and his fears peak every October. When three Buddhist priests arrive after a shipwreck, the general resigns himself to his fate, refusing all help as a decades-old vengeance finally closes in.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Cloomber Hallin salaisuus
"Cloomber Hallin salaisuus" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a novel first published in 1889. A retired British general settles in remote Scotland, haunted by paranoid fears that intensify each October. His terror stems from a wartime massacre in Afghanistan forty years earlier, where he killed a Buddhist priest and slaughtered defenseless enemies. Now the priest's devoted students have finally tracked him down, prolonging his torment through psychic powers before exacting their long-delayed revenge at a bottomless pit in the marshes.
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