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In wartime Stockholm, a quiet café table can be a meeting place for rival powers.
In The Copper House, Julius Regis takes you into a neutral capital where the war finds quieter ways to make itself felt. Agents watch one another across café tables and hotel lobbies. Open conflict gives way to whispers, hidden motives and the uneasy sense that nobody says quite what they mean.
Secrets drive this spy novel, while suspicion puts loyalty under pressure. What does a person owe to country, friends or conscience when those claims pull in different directions? First published in 1918, the book belongs to the early espionage thriller tradition, where hidden knowledge matters and quiet danger draws the reader onward.
What you’ll discover
- A city of watchers Enter a wartime Stockholm where neutrality leaves room for a struggle carried on in whispers.
- Secrets at the centre Follow a plot built around hidden knowledge, where what remains unsaid keeps suspicion alive.
- Loyalties under pressure Consider the competing demands of country, friendship and conscience in a world of agents.
- Danger beneath ordinary encounters Look across café tables and hotel lobbies, where rival agents watch one another.
- An early spy thriller Discover the atmosphere of espionage fiction from a time shaped by the Great War.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy wartime intrigue, secret documents, disguises and a clever amateur detective will find plenty here. It also suits anyone who likes a country house under siege and a carefree young hero finding his courage.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A Baron Waits Outside Room 23
- An Heir Learns His House Is Slipping Away
- Wallion Tells the Tale of a Dangerous Dreamer
- A Warm Welcome With a Shotgun
- Wallion Lays Out the Chain of Villains
- Back Inside the Besieged House
- An Unexpected Ally Tends the Roses
- What the Copper House Is Really About
- How the Story Is Built and Told
Who’s who
- Maurice WallionA journalist known as the Problem-hunter who turns up wherever a mystery smells wrong, and who is determined to expose Gabriel Ortiz.
- Leonard GrathA carefree young painter, called Leo, who comes home from California to find his family estate caught up in a plan to sell it.
- Baron Frederick FayerlingA cold, polished schemer with a fashionable beard who serves as Ortiz's right hand and wants the Tarraschin memorandum.
- Sonia BerninA quick, dark-eyed girl who runs like a boy, hates patience, and keeps a secret she dare not share with Leo.
- Lona IvanovnaA stern old Russian, once a bomb-throwing revolutionary, who guards her household with a revolver and a crochet hook.
- RastakovA tall Russian henchman who ties up, searches and threatens on the baron's orders, with loyalties of his own.
- Max RaebelAn Austrian government detective posing as the gardener Rosenthal, sent to keep the Tarraschin document out of thieves' hands.
- Marcus TasslerA stout, nervous merchant who runs the Finno-Russian Import and Export Company and keeps pressing to buy the Copper House.
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La Casa de Cobre
by Julius Regis · 1918
Leo Grath comes home on a whim and finds armed men at its gates and a detective at his side.
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The Copper House is a spy thriller set in Stockholm in the summer of 1917, the third year of the Great War. It was written by Julius Regis, who died in 1925.
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A Baron Waits Outside Room 23
The book opens with a warning that nobody heeds. Early in 1917 a small weekly paper prints an open letter asking who the Man in the Whirlpool is. The writer argues that Stockholm, crowded with plotters and profiteers from every side, hides one strong mind that steers the forces of destruction. Readers laugh, and the paper soon falls silent.
The story proper begins on July 19, 1917, in a Stockholm hotel. Baron Frederick Fayerling, a solid man with cold blue eyes and a fashionable beard, snaps at his helpers as if cracking a whip. A spy known only as B.22 reports that a young fugitive named Bernard Jenin has just arrived from Russia. He is said to carry the most important paper in Europe, called the Tarraschin memorandum, and he has been put in room 23.
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What is The Copper House about?
It is a 1917 spy thriller set in Stockholm. A young heir returns to learn that his family estate is the base of a mysterious gang, and a journalist named Maurice Wallion races to stop their leader, Gabriel Ortiz.
Who is Gabriel Ortiz in The Copper House?
Ortiz is a Brazilian millionaire who once styled himself Emperor of the Amazons and later became the Coffee King of Wall Street. During the Great War he plans an enormous scheme from Stockholm, and the novel calls him the Man in the Whirlpool.
What is the Tarraschin memorandum?
It is a document written by Prince Tarraschin after the March Revolution in Russia, setting out a plan to restore the Tsar. It names every plotter, so whoever holds it can control them, and everyone in the book wants it.
The author
Julius Regis
1889–1925 · Swedish writer and journalist
Julius Regis (1889–1925) was a Swedish writer and journalist. He lived in Sweden and wrote fiction in the early twentieth century. His works include The Copper House and No. 13 Toroni. He wrote detective stories and adventure fiction during the 1910s and 1920s.
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