The Seven Percent Solution is a 1974 novel by the American writer Nicholas Meyer. It was written as a pastiche of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and was filmed in the film of the same name in 1976. Published as "The Lost Manuscript" of the late Dr. Jo
Charlie Howard is a writer of crime novels, but also a thief for a select clientele. He is in Amsterdam where he is finishing his latest novel about the lovable thief Faulks.
A tipsy cabaret dancer from the Picratt nightclub entered the police station and excitedly announced that she had heard two men at the next table in the bar conspire to kill a countess, an unknown countess.
The plot revolves around a daring crime – the theft of a precious red diamond, a jewel of immense value that attracts the attention of the Parisian underworld.
Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske, 1965.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.