Το Θαύμα του Μάνγκο (Νο 10)

During a concert in Budapest, a celebrated soloist claims that his valuable violin has been stolen. Yet no one seems willing to believe him, because an identical violin is found in his dressing room. The musician remains adamant, and the mystery is assigned to a dashing police inspector and a psychoanalyst.

For the psychoanalyst, the solution appears straightforward: all that is needed are a few sessions with the musician. But a mysterious woman and a child prodigy lead the inspector to suspect that the case is far more complicated than it first appears.

Arthur Koestler’s first novel—and the only detective story he wrote together with his fellow Hungarian Andor Nemeth—is a gripping mystery filled with unexpected twists and turns. Combining the conventions of the traditional detective story with the intriguing world of psychoanalysis, Το Θαύμα του Μάνγκο offers an unusual and suspenseful literary puzzle in which appearances can be deeply misleading.