About the book: 2007 / From the author of the famous "Quincunx" - a filigree stylization of a Victorian detective story a la Wilkie Collins. The focus of the story, which takes place at the end of the 19th century, but with many excursions into both the 17th and 9th centuries, is a gigantic Gothic cathedral that holds many mysteries. Arriving in a quiet provincial town to visit an old friend whom he has not seen for more than twenty years, the narrator has no idea what dramatic events he is destined to witness..