Who is Nostalgo ?
Posters with his unsettlingly grinning face are appearing on scaffolds all over London.
A murdered body, horribly disfigured and bearing a striking resemblance to the man on the poster, vanishes from a police-station.
Jack Masefield wants to protect his fiancée Claire from her shady guardian Anstruther, and before he knows it, he is in the thick of the mystery, unraveling a tale of greed, deception, revenge and dark deeds. - Summary by Sonia
Chapters
1 Chapter I. Nostalgo 13 min 2 Chapter II. The Chopin Nocturne 4 min 3 Chapter III. The mystery of the strings 19 min 4 Chapter IV. The speaking likeness 19 min 5 Chapter V. A vanished clue 13 min 6 Chapter VI. Vanished ! 13 min 7 Chapter VII. No. 4, Montrose Place 14 min 8 Chapter VIII. The Chopin Fantasie 14 min 9 Chapter IX. The man with the fair moustache 13 min 10 Chapter X. What did she know ? 15 min 11 Chapter XI. The shadow on the wall 15 min 12 Chapter XII. Locked in ! 14 min 13 Chapter XIII. The parable 14 min 14 Chapter XIV. Nostalgo again 13 min 15 Chapter XV. Lady Barmouth 15 min 16 Chapter XVI. The bosom of her family 13 min 17 Chapter XVII. Which man was it ? 15 min 18 Chapter XVIII. The empty room 12 min 19 Chapter XIX. A broken melody 13 min 20 Chapter XX. The mouse in the trap 14 min 21 Chapter XXI. A leader of society 15 min 22 Chapter XXII. The portrait 15 min 23 Chapter XXIII. Face to face 15 min 24 Chapter XXIV. In the Square 12 min 25 Chapter XXV. On the track 15 min 26 Chapter XXVI. Serena again 12 min 27 Chapter XXVII. In the smoking-room 14 min 28 Chapter XXVIII. The lamp goes out 12 min 29 Chapter XXIX. The silver lamp 14 min 30 Chapter XXX. Bedroom 14 12 min 31 Chapter XXXI. A chance encounter 14 min 32 Chapter XXXII. Lady Barmouth's jewels 13 min 33 Chapter XXXIII. Gems or paste ? 14 min 34 Chapter XXXIV. In the vault 13 min 35 Chapter XXXV. The Cellini plate 12 min 36 Chapter XXXVI. A stroke of policy 16 min 37 Chapter XXXVII. A pregnant message 14 min 38 Chapter XXXVIII. The cry in the night 14 min 39 Chapter XXXIX. Preparing the way 14 min 40 Chapter XL. The magician speaks 15 min 41 Chapter XLI. The worm turns 15 min 42 Chapter XLII. A piece of music 14 min 43 Chapter XLIII. The trap is baited 13 min 44 Chapter XLIV. The substitute 13 min 45 Chapter XLV. Caught ! 15 min 46 Chapter XLVI. The music stops 14 min 47 Chapter XLVII. ''A woman scorned'' 14 min 48 Chapter XLVIII. The proof of the camera 14 min 49 Chapter XLIX. Proof positive 14 min 50 Chapter L. On the brink 13 min 51 Chapter LI. Against the World 14 min 52 Chapter LII. The end of it all 14 min