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"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays." The last of them was a police sergeant who had volunteered to sleep in the room to learn what happens that might explain the hangings, and somehow he met with the same fate. The medical student was aware of these incidents, but... "There was one detail about which he knew nothing because neither the police inspector nor any of the…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar of the window in that room on three successive Fridays." The last of them was a police sergeant who had volunteered to sleep in the room to learn what happens that might explain the hangings, and somehow he met with the same fate. The medical student was aware of these incidents, but...
"There was one detail about which he knew nothing because neither the police inspector nor any of the eyewitnesses had mentioned it to the press. It was only later, after what happened to the medical student, that anyone remembered that when the police removed Sergeant Charles-Maria Chaumié's body from the window cross-bar a large black spider crawled from the dead man's open mouth. A hotel porter flicked it away, exclaiming, 'Ugh, another of those damned creatures.'"
Thus begins this bizarre mystery of "The Spider."
Autorenporträt
Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943) föddes i Düsseldorf och är mest känd för sitt författande av skräcklitteratur. Flera av Hanns Heinz Ewers böcker filmatiserades under hans livstid, så även denna bok om Horst Wessel. Under första världskriget var Ewers tysk agent i USA och han blev välkänd för sina spektakulära resor och upplevelser. Under sin studietid i Tyskland hade Ewers varit medlem i samma studentkår som Horst Wessel senare skulle bli medlem i, och Ewers kom under början av 1930-talet också att engagera sig i NSDAP. Detta engagemang föranledde att hans böcker inte längre fick någon uppmärksamhet efter andra världskriget, men under senare år har Ewers återupptäckts och flera av hans verk har getts ut på bland annat svenska.