About the book: 2012 / Ellen Wood is an English writer, the founder of the “serial detective story.” The novel “East Lynn” brought her enormous success, which was translated into all the major languages ​​of the world and repeatedly filmed. Mr. Carlyle buys the East Lynn estate from an elderly lord, who soon dies, leaving nothing to his daughter. Enchanted by Isabella's beauty and kindness, Carlyle proposes marriage to her. But a cloud hangs over the family idyll: Carlyle is drawn into the investigation of a complicated murder..