![]() ![]() ![]() We start off with a quick snippet of pirates on a dicey mission at the far corners of the known world - the sort of thing Jack Sparrow might get into - then shift to who-knows-how-many years later, in an unnamed French city where the son of a pirate captain, a young man named Jean-Jacques, is summoned to Malpertuis, the home of his dying uncle, along with the rest of his relatives, to hear the particulars of his uncle’s will. … who looted a monastery and found among the pricey relics a bunch of papers which he has correlated into the story we are about to read, as told by different players in the drama at different times. ![]() “In the course of my career I have made a close study of the sound of footsteps heard in sleeping households-in much the same way as detectives have studied the ashes of pipes and cigars.” ![]()
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