The Three Eyes - Les Trois Yeux

Maurice Leblanc

[New York]: A. L. Burt and Co. / The Macaulay Company Publishers, USA

1921

280 páginas

9h 20m

ISBN-13: 9798701033380

First published 1919-1920 as Les Trois Yeux:. Leblanc's first foray into pure science fiction. Scholar Noël Dorgeroux dies before completing his mysterious message--whether it's a formula or the name of his murderer remains unclear. Added the mystery, a revelation that Dorgeroux has been in televisual contact with impossibly intelligent, three-eyed Venusians... Strange projections of images are seen, baffling the inhabitants of Meudon. The explanations, and the nature of the images, baffle all, although there is some suggestion that they originate from Venus!
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LEBLANC, Maurice. The Three Eyes. New York, A. L. Burt and Co. / The Macaulay Company Publishers, 1921. 'Fascinating realms of the unknown, and adds a touch of the supernatural... The story has a bright side in the love romance of a young Frenchman and a girl who proves to be the daughter of the eccentric old inventor'.

'(....) For me the strange story dates back to that autumn day when my uncle Noël Dorgeroux appeared, staggering and unhinged, in the doorway of the room which I occupied in his house, Haut-Meudon Lodge. None of us had set eyes on him for a week. A prey to that nervous exasperation into which the final test of any of his inventions invariably threw him, he was living among his furnaces and retorts, keeping every door shut, sleeping on a sofa, eating nothing but fruit and bread. And suddenly he stood before me, livid, wild-eyed, stammering, emaciated, as though he had lately recovered from a long and dangerous illness.
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Three Eyes, by Maurice Leblanc.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34653/34653-h/34653-h.htm