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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.
Che cos’è questo libro
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. It follows a quiet hunt for a hidden master of chaos, the man a small newspaper once called the Man in the Whirlpool.
The story begins on July 19, with two arrivals in the city. One is a hunted young Russian carrying a secret paper that could shake Europe. The other is Leonard Grath, a cheerful painter just back from California, who learns that the old family estate he owns, the Copper House, is about to slip out of his hands. Between them moves Maurice Wallion, a journalist called the Problem-hunter, who turns up wherever a mystery smells wrong.
You will meet a baron with cold blue eyes, a merchant who drinks to steady his nerves, a stern old Russian lady with a revolver in her workbag, and a dark-eyed girl who runs through the woods like a boy. The book gives you short, quick chapters, a country house under siege, and a storm gathering over the sea. This summary follows the story up to the night the storm breaks. We begin in a hotel corridor, outside room 23.
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- 1A Baron Waits Outside Room 23Free
- 2An Heir Learns His House Is Slipping Away
- 3Wallion Tells the Tale of a Dangerous Dreamer
- 4A Warm Welcome With a Shotgun
- 5Wallion Lays Out the Chain of Villains
- 6Back Inside the Besieged House
- 7An Unexpected Ally Tends the Roses
- 8What the Copper House Is Really About
- 9How the Story Is Built and Told
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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.
The baron sends a tough Russian named Rastakov to take the paper within the hour. Then the stout merchant Marcus Tassler bursts in with a telegram. Leonard Grath, owner of an estate called the Copper House, has landed in Sweden, and the gang cannot afford a visitor there. The baron coldly says the sea is close by and an accident could be arranged. Tassler goes pale. He starts to speak the name of Gabriel Ortiz, and the baron cuts him off, saying that name may be spoken only in a whisper or when alone.
The baron then waits in a wicker chair by the stairs. A well-dressed stranger across from him lights a cigarette and politely tells him the date, as if he had read the baron's mind. The baron loses his temper, and the stranger simply goes back to his newspaper. When the fifteen minutes allowed to Rastakov have long passed, the baron slips into room 23.
He finds Rastakov tied up like a parcel and gagged, with a card in his pocket. It says that Bernard Jenin sends his regards and that Rastakov is returned unharmed, signed Maurice Wallion. A second note on the staircase table says the writer waited to see the baron in contact with room 23. For one second the baron feels the first breath of defeat, and the first blow in the struggle goes to the stranger.
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Questions about La Casa di rame
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.
Is The Copper House a true story?
No, it is fiction, though it uses real events such as the Great War, the March Revolution of 1917 and Kerensky's government. The author wrote it as an adventure, and Wallion himself jokes about its mix of fact and fancy.
Is The Copper House easy to follow?
Yes, in the sense that the chapters are short, the action moves quickly, and Wallion explains the chain of villains clearly. The story is told in order over a few days, so listeners can follow it with ease.