Story summary
Streszczenie książki Czarna skrzynka
- 8 min czytania
- 10 parts
- Nagranie wkrótce
A master detective uses a pocket wireless to hunt a killer who taunts him with black boxes and sinister messages.
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Czarna skrzynka — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 8 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 6 h 25 min5 h 5 min fast, 7 h 35 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 91 200
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Średni longer sentences, everyday words
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1915by E. Phillips Oppenheim
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Czarna skrzynka in short
The Black Box tells of a famous detective who meets an enemy he cannot find. It begins with a murdered heiress, a stolen necklace and a faithless butler, and it grows into a contest with a figure who sends mocking messages in black boxes. Quest answers with wireless sets, mirrors, hypnosis and explosives, and each answer is met by a stranger trick.
What Czarna skrzynka is about
Twenty-five floors above New York, a young man from the West asks who the quiet fellow dining alone might be. The waiters treat him like a little god, and a millionaire shrinks in his seat. That man is Sanford Quest, and he could end a crook's career if he chose.
The Black Box is a detective thriller by E. Phillips Oppenheim, the English storyteller who wrote many popular mysteries before his death in 1946. It follows Quest through murders and jewel thefts from New York to an English country house and the Egyptian desert. Small black boxes appear along the way, each holding a mocking note signed with two threatening hands.
Dla kogo. Readers who love fast mysteries with gadgets, disguises, chases and cliffhanger chapters will enjoy it. It suits anyone drawn to early New York and master detectives.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A detective whom a whole city fears
The story opens on a rooftop restaurant, and the first scene is all about reputation. A young New Yorker points out stars of the stage and rich men to his country cousin. Then the cousin asks about the man dining alone, and the answer changes the mood of the evening.
Quest is a scientist and a magician, not just a policeman. He keeps a great house with private chemists, telegraph lines and agents in every large city. He takes only the cases he chooses.
Guilty faces turn away, and a woman lowers her veil. Quest does not seem to notice, yet nobody can be sure he has missed them. A hero who seems unbeatable makes an enemy worth fearing.
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A family jewel draws a servant's hungry eye
The scene shifts to a Dorset breakfast table.
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Quest turns a mirror into a witness
At the hotel, Quest asks only a few ordinary questions.
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A missing skeleton and a pair of hands
The second part begins on the courthouse steps.
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Quest becomes the hunted man
Lenora fears that Macdougal may still be alive, so she persuades Quest to search along the railway.
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The chase crosses the ocean to England
Quest hides in the Servants' Club to wait for Craig.
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Poison, desert and an escape across the world
The group boards the steamer, and Scotland Yard searches every corner without finding Craig.
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Science is a gift, a weapon and a danger
Science runs through the book like a second plot.
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Appearances, cunning and the hunger for belonging
The book keeps asking how well anyone can read another person.
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How the book keeps you turning pages
The story is built in short chapters, and almost every one ends on a shock.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Sanford Quest New York's master criminologist, who uses science and hypnosis to hunt criminals and wants to end the mystery of the Hands.
- Lenora A former maid with a painful past, who becomes Quest's brave assistant and refuses to give up on the hunt.
- Laura Quest's blunt, loyal secretary, quick with a joke and a plan, who insists on joining every dangerous trip.
- Inspector French A New York police inspector, honest and stubborn, who sometimes doubts Quest and falls hard for Laura.
- Professor Edgar Ashleigh A gentle English scientist back from South America, who is eager to prove his theory and always ready with advice.
- Craig The Professor's anxious servant, suspected of the crimes, who keeps slipping through every net laid for him.
- Lord Ashleigh The Professor's brother and a country magistrate, who gives his daughter the family diamonds and sends her to New York.
- Macdougal The Ashleigh family butler who watches the necklace greedily and promises that a greater master will destroy Quest.
How it ends (spoiler)
Craig, cornered at last, dies while Quest tries to draw the truth from his mind, and a hidden journal is found. It shows that the real master of the Hands is Professor Ashleigh, whose mind is ruled at times by a brutal, animal self after a bite in South America. Craig had shielded him for ten years. Quest forces the truth from the Professor, who poisons himself with a trick pen. Quest then retires from detective work, and Laura accepts French. He proposes to Lenora and marries her.
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Pytania o Czarna skrzynka
Who are the Hands in The Black Box?
The Hands are the signature of the unseen criminal. The black boxes carry messages signed with drawings of hands, and Quest, his assistants and the police spend most of the book trying to identify their mysterious enemy.
Is The Black Box easy to read?
Yes, in its pace and style. The chapters are short, the dialogue is lively and each scene ends with a question or a surprise, so the story moves quickly from one adventure to the next.
When was The Black Box written and is it a true story?
It is fiction by E. Phillips Oppenheim, written in the early twentieth century. The gadgets and the plot are invented, though the settings in New York, England, Egypt and the American West give it a lively period flavor.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Oppenheim, E. Phillips. The Black Box. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-black-box.
Oppenheim, E. P. (2026). The black box. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-black-box (Original work published 1915)
Oppenheim, E. Phillips. The Black Box. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-black-box.
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note = {First published 1915}
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