Doktor Nikola
By Guy Boothby (translated by Johs. Magnussen)
Cover: Nocturne: Grey and Gold, Westminster Bridge (1871-1872) by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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The mysterious Dr Nikola, with his cat and his cold charm, hires the narrator Wilfrid Bruce, a down-on-his-luck Englishman in Shanghai, to help him reach a hidden lamasery in the interior of China. There, disguised as priests, they mean to steal the secret of how to prolong life. Guy Boothby's popular adventure novel, in a Danish translation.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.