Nik Karter. A Collection of Stories

Moris Renar was one of the leading science fiction writers of the first decades of the 20th century. In addition, along with science fiction plots, Renard widely used mystical-religious, pseudo-gothic, detective and adventure themes in his works. This volume contains three works by Renard related to the detective genre. The novel "Mysterious Transformations" is an example of a real psychological detective story, reminiscent of traditional Sherlock Holmes investigations - with a mysterious murder and the use of the deductive method to solve it. The story "The Secret of His Eyes" tells the story of a young Frenchman who lost his sight in the war. The mysterious doctor Prosop replaces his eyes with electroscopes - devices that detect electricity. Here the detective-fantasy plot also has a symbolic meaning: the blindness of the mind leads to the emergence of wars, cruelty, the destruction of civilization... The story "Rendezvous" is, rather, a mystical thriller with a detective plot, written in the best traditions of Edgar Poe.