02526cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000340011324000270014724500160017426400510019030000470024133600260028833700260031433800360034049000390037650000310041550800180044652014160046453400670188065300340194765300480198170000340202983000390206385600430210299900190214576923UtSlPG20260610134800.0mcr n260607r20251918utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afi2iso639-1 4aPQ1 aSardou, Victorien,d1831-190813aLa perle noir. Finnish10aMusta helmi 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 a"Kariston 75 pennin romaaneja" 11.  aRelease date is 2025-09-24  aTuula Temonen  a"Musta helmi" by Victorien Sardou is a novel written in the mid-19th century. Set in Amsterdam, it blends romance and crime as Balthazar Van der Lys, eager to prove his long-standing love to the heiress Suzanne Van Miellis with a cherished medallion, is plunged into crisis when his home is burgled and suspicion falls on Christiane, the gentle foster daughter he and his late mother raised.  The opening of this novel follows Balthazar and his scholarly friend Cornelius Pamp through a violent storm back to Balthazar’s house, where a convivial evening turns to alarm: the study has been ransacked, cash and jewels are gone, and—most crucially—the medallion Balthazar meant to give Suzanne is missing. A keen but self-satisfied police commissary, Tricamp, reconstructs the break-in via a hidden wall opening and swiftly theorizes the thief is a small, agile young woman familiar with the house. Suspicion narrows to Christiane, who returns from tending the elderly servant Gudule, is confronted, faints, and is further compromised when a black pearl from the medallion is found in her room. While Gudule’s testimony places Christiane mostly in the house and shows how rattled she was by the storm, the scene ends with Christiane protesting her innocence as Balthazar and Cornelius—torn between trust and mounting “evidence”—struggle to believe her. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cHämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto Oy, 1918  aDetective and mystery stories  aFrench fiction -- Translations into Finnish1 aSimojoki, Aukusti,d1882-1959 0a"Kariston 75 pennin romaaneja" 11.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76923  c117648d117648