About the book: 2011 / Robert Shtilmark was arrested in 1945 on charges of “counter-revolutionary agitation” and sentenced to ten years in prison. In a forced labor camp, he created the adventure novel “The Heir from Calcutta.” A certain crime boss was going to send this work to I. Stalin under his name in order to receive an amnesty. The book was first published in 1958, after the release and rehabilitation of R. Shtilmark. The action of the novel takes place at the end of the 18th century in England, Italy, Spain and the seas of the Indian Ocean . A pirate ship led by the one-eyed captain Bernardito Luis El Gore captures a ship with the heir to the count's family, Fredrick Ryland, who is traveling to England from Calcutta with his bride Emilia... The novel shows all the features of the adventure genre in a vivid artistic form: unsolved secrets, amazing transformations, persecution , intrigue and, finally, the triumph of good over evil.