Le Scarabée d’Or

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[Ebook reader of The Golden Scarab]The Gold Bug is a detective and adventure story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in June 1843 in the Philadelphia newspaper Dollar Newspaper.SummaryIn this short story, a Gentleman from the South having suffered reversals of fortune, William Legrand lives as a recluse with Jupiter, his faithful servant, on Sullivans Island in South Carolina where this fallen son of a good family has come to escape poverty.
There he finds a magnificent golden beetle.
Apparently made of solid gold, the beetle will torment his mind to the point of obsession.The discovery of a mysterious message, a sketch scribbled on an old parchment, will then generate for the protagonists a series of twists and turns mixing suspense and cryptology: Legrand, accompanied by his faithful servant Jupiter and followed by his narrator friend, sets off in pursuit.
from the treasure of the famous Captain Kidd who once traced a secret code in sympathetic ink on the ancient parchment...
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