In the Fog

Hard to believe that this story was written in 1901. Very easy to read and entertaining, it's a detective story with a tricky ending. It reminded me of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club" stories, although it's the more light-hearted of the two. Definitely a good read for a foggy evening.

In a London club a group of gentlemen meet and one of them tells of his adventures in the fog. It begins with him saying "And yet Sherlock Holmes himself,could not decipher the mystery which to-night baffles the police of London." He tells how on leaving the house of a friend to return to his hotel,he became lost in one of the worst fogs that London had experienced for many years. In the course of feeling his way along,he comes to the open and lighted door of a large house which he enters to enquire the way. It is here that he finds the dead bodies of a man in evening dress and later of a beautiful woman. Thus begins this tale of murder and mystery dating from the 'Golden Age' of detective fiction.

Clever mystery. (The description of a London fog is amazing.)

1897, three interconnected stories told at The Grill Club.
Firstly the Story of the Naval Attache as told by Lt. Ripley Sears. Who on walking home late one night in heavy for encountered dead bodies in a house.
The second, the story of Princess Zichy and the theft of a diamond necklace. Finally a story to find the murderer of those bodies.
An interesting mystery story.
First published 1901

Justo en la noche anterior a la gran niebla que cubrió Londres en 1897 cinco hombres se reúnen en The Grill, uno de los clubs más exclusivos de la capital. Entre todos intentan unir el rompecabezas que supone un misterioso asesinato doble y cuyos protagonistas serán un infatigable detective de Scotland Yard, una princesa rusa con un pasado escandaloso y un explorador que vuelve de entre los muertos. La intriga está servida.