The Investigation (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanislaw Lem
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: London, England, and its environs
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, England or English people, Cancer, London, Miracles, Life and death
- Locales: London, England
Characters Discussed
Gregory, a Scotland Yard lieutenant detective. Tall and lean, with a broad face, square jaw, and dark complexion, he lives in a mysterious rooming house, where barely audible noises at night disturb his sleep. The first case of his career involves finding the perpetrator of a series of apparently related crimes: Several corpses have been removed from mortuaries and strangely mutilated. A well-trained detective, Gregory must find a human cause for these events, but his odd methods of investigation and his passion for truth gradually convince him that these...
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