Graves' Gate

11 hrs. 34 min.

Language Russian

Author Dennis Burgess

Narrator Sergey Kirsanov

Description

First in Russian—a mystic-detective thriller by the American writer Dennis Bueges: “The Gates of ‘Graves’,” about a psychiatrist-murderer, hypnosis, and the transmigration of souls. 1922, London. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, constantly mocked in the press and in high society circles because of his passion for spiritualism, receives a strange message with an intriguing proposal that he can’t refuse. An anonymous correspondent—who seems to be Dr. Bernard Gassman, once treating Conan Doyle’s father and believed to be dead—promises to provide undeniable proof of the existence of life after death—in exchange for one unusual service: the creator of Sherlock Holmes must arrange a meeting between some Helen Wickham, condemned to be hanged and awaiting execution in Holloway Prison, and any one of the three people mentioned at the end of the letter.
Thus begins a chain of mysterious and ominous events, at the center of which are a young American journalist, Charles Baker, and his companion Adriana Wallace. They set out, at Conan Doyle’s request, on a deadly dangerous investigation into what happened at the psychiatric clinic “Morton Graves,” where Dr. Gassman once practiced…