Nikolay Edouardovich Geyntse is a writer, journalist, and playwright. He is the author of numerous historical novels, whose characters, as a rule, are the first persons of the state. However, Geyntse acquired even greater fame as the author of detective novels that were popular and went through multiple reprints.
“ The Mystery of the High House” is one of those novels, where real events are used as the foundation of the work, and its main characters are in no way shy about resorting to grim and cunning villainies—braiding intrigues and yielding to base passions.