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Wooden dolls, guarded secrets, and a chase across two continents: what lies behind an object that looks harmless?
In No. 13 Toroni, Julius Regis brings mystery and adventure together around wooden dolls and hidden secrets. Objects conceal more than they reveal, and people go far to protect what they know. The puzzle draws you into a pursuit that stretches across two continents, with danger keeping close to the clues.
This is a thriller in the early detective and adventure tradition, where movement matters as much as mystery. Short scenes and clear action keep the plot moving steadily. Rather than settle into deep psychology, the story invites you to watch the objects, follow the chase, and wonder what each guarded secret may mean.
What you’ll discover
- Secrets in ordinary things Look closer at harmless objects that conceal more than their appearance suggests.
- Wooden dolls and mystery Follow a puzzle whose wooden dolls give the adventure a distinctive focus.
- A pursuit across continents Travel beyond one town or country as the chase carries the mystery onward.
- Action that keeps moving Enjoy short scenes and direct action that keep your attention on what happens next.
- Old-fashioned suspense Enter an early thriller built around clues, pursuit, and secrets people fiercely protect.
Who will love it
Readers who love old-fashioned detective adventures with clues, disguises, sea voyages and treasure, and who enjoy a clever investigator, a young hero and a mystery that grows stranger from chapter to chapter.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A telegram, a doll and a murder
- A stranger hides in Murner's rooms
- Wallion reads the marks and the clues
- A cousin, a letter and a second attack
- Doctor Corman comes to take her away
- On the ship, a Greek and a story
- Seattle: a detective, a parcel and a prisoner
- The chase to the sea and the Ariadne
- What King Solomon was, and who plays what part
Who’s who
- Maurice WallionA calm Swedish journalist detective known as the Problem Solver, who reads small clues and wants to finish the case for a murdered man.
- Thomas MurnerA cheerful young architect who is drawn into the mystery by chance and follows it for the sake of a girl and a friend.
- Elaine RobertsonA pale, brave young woman sent to Sweden by her father to bring back two wooden dolls, who knows far less than the villains think.
- Victor DreyelA reserved old photographer in Stockholm who has lived for fifteen years with a secret and fears a man called Toroni.
- Doctor Augustus N. CormanA smooth, cold American doctor who calls himself Elaine's guardian and runs a private asylum near Seattle.
- Ricardo FerailA silent Greek antiquarian with a black forked beard, light on his feet and handy with a long knife, who wants one thing above all.
- Edward A. DixonA heavy Seattle businessman who owns hotels, a wharf and a steam yacht, and is deep in debt.
- Mrs. TobyWallion's housekeeper, a stout, kind woman who nurses the wounded girl and rules any house she enters.
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N.º 13 Toroni
by Julius Regis
A murdered photographer, a vanished wooden doll and a girl in grey send Maurice Wallion from Stockholm to Seattle.
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No. 13 Toroni is a detective novel by the Swedish writer Julius Regis, set in the summer of 1918.
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A telegram, a doll and a murder
The story begins on the first of August 1918 in Stockholm. Victor Dreyel, a quiet photographer of about sixty, has lived for fifteen years in a fifth-floor studio at No. 30 John Street. The neighbors know nothing about his past, and they have long since stopped guessing.
That evening Dreyel is tense. A telegram has reached him from Gothenburg, signed E.R., which says that Toroni has learned the secret and tells him to watch the wooden doll. Dreyel has asked his young neighbor Thomas Murner to bring a famous newspaper detective, Maurice Wallion, at nine. When Murner reads the telegram, Dreyel mutters that Toroni was the thirteenth.
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What is No. 13 Toroni about?
It is a detective novel about a murdered Stockholm photographer, two stolen wooden dolls and a secret called King Solomon. A Swedish journalist detective follows the trail from Stockholm to Seattle and then along a dangerous coast.
Who is Toroni in the book?
Toroni is the name in the telegram that frightens Victor Dreyel, who calls him the thirteenth. The people in the story fear him, and Maurice Wallion works throughout to learn who he is and what he is after.
What do the numbers on the wooden dolls mean?
Each doll is numbered and carved in the likeness of one of twelve men, and some carry extra figures on the foot. Wallion works out a theory about them in the middle of the book, and the full answer comes later.
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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