
audiobook
by Ernst Bernhard Joseph Theodor Schwitzky
In a quiet Copenhagen hotel the narrator encounters a curious companion who introduces himself as Daco‑Nogi. Over ten days the stranger shows the city’s highlights while hinting at a deeper obsession: the recent disappearance of the Gioconda from the Louvre. Their conversations weave together travel anecdotes, literary references, and subtle hints that something far larger may be unfolding beneath the surface of everyday life.
What makes Daco‑Nogi unsettling is his almost uncanny ability to draw precise conclusions from the faintest remarks and fleeting glances. The diary records his sudden knowledge of the narrator’s private affairs and his uncanny advice, suggesting a mind that works like a living puzzle‑solver. Listeners are invited to follow this early, unsettling act as the mystery of the stolen portrait intertwines with a stranger’s extraordinary perception, promising a tale that balances intrigue with the charm of early‑twentieth‑century Europe.
Language
de
Duration
~2 hours (146K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Jens Sadowski
Release date
2013-09-15
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
b. 1884
Best known for an early 20th-century novel inspired by the Mona Lisa theft, this German-language writer also published a legal-historical study on George of Poděbrady’s European peace plan. Very little biographical detail appears to be readily documented online, which gives his surviving books an extra air of mystery.
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