Maurice Renard is a recognized master of adventure and crime novel, one of the leading science fiction writers of France at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, also known for his mystical and pseudo-Gothic works. This edition includes his most famous novels - a romantic detective "He?", psychological thriller "Hands of Orlak" and a series of stories about Commissioner Jerome .. "Beautiful era"! A time of miracles, when the connection with the other world was considered as reliable as the railway schedule, and the rapid development of science and technology was accompanied by no less lush flowering of mysticism . When transplantology and canteening seemed to be things of the same order and even the most short-sighted intruders, wanting to cover their tracks, prepared their crimes with such sophistication, as if the police already have all the achievements of criminology of the twenty-first century. However, detectives had nothing but knowledge of human nature, insight and the ability to build logical chains. It turns out that this is quite enough to shed light on the machinations of intruders ..