Lord Lister No. 0328: Het raadsel van Niassa

In the narrow, dust‑laden lanes of Lombard Street, London’s oldest book‑shops huddle together like sentinels of a forgotten age. Their cramped interiors glow only by oil lamps, and the air is thick with the scent of ancient vellum, cracked bindings, and centuries‑old secrets. Among the gaunt, mouse‑like clerks and towering oak shelves, a solitary patron—Lord William Aberdeen, a distinguished collector of rare tomes—wanders each week, drawn by an unquenchable fascination with the past.

Within one venerable shop, whose front bears the barely legible date 1509, the enigmatic Lee family has guarded a trove of manuscripts for generations. It is here that a mysterious Latin codex surfaces, hinting at a puzzling connection to the distant land of Niassa. As Aberdeen and his young secretary, Charly Brand, begin to decipher its cryptic passages, they awaken a quiet intrigue that promises to test their scholarly instincts and pull them deeper into the shadowy world of antiquarian obsession.