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Shadow Trilogy:
1.
The Mystery of a Puzzle (1940)
In the Shadow District, the oldest part of the city, boys call
themselves Vonts and keep the rules of their organization secret
from the boys from other districts. The gang's history is linked
with a mysterious puzzle – Hedgehog in the cage. In the district
called The Other Side, five friends meet regularly in the club of
the group the Fast Arrows. It is Mirek Dušín, Jarka Metelka and
Jindra Hojer and two boys nicknamed Red Cap and Fast Leg. They want
to introduce the readers of their magazine, called Tom-Tom, to the
history of the puzzle. But the Cat Paw Brotherhood with its own
magazine Collector is faster. Its members – Long Pole, Bristle and
Bohouš – also similarly succeed in the next issue, mysteriously
learning about and publishing a story of the orphan Jan Tleskač, a
locksmith's apprentice, who tragically died years ago, falling from
the bell tower of the St James church. Its old sexton told the Fast
Arrows about him.
The five boys secretly infiltrate the Shadow
District (with yellow pins in the lapel -
the symbol of the
Vonts) where preparations for the election of the Big Vont are
being held. Both the candidates – Losna and Mažňák – try to get
voters. The Fast Arrows find Tleskač's diary and thus learn about an
invention whose plan was hidden by the talented boy in the hedgehog
inserted in the cage. The boys almost separate in fear that a
traitor is among them, but then they fortunately discover a device
by which the Brotherhood was bugging them. The boys find out from a
part of the diary that Tleskač was threatened by the locksmith's
master, named Em, who wanted to get hold of his ingenious invention
– a flying bicycle. The Fast Arrows help the upright and noble Losna
win over the malicious Mažňák in the elections. They show Losna how
to remove the hedgehog – the talisman of the Vont organization – from
the cage after Tleskač's description in the diary. But the deceitful
Em – Mažňák's father, who murdered his apprentice Tleskač years ago
– seizes the puzzle and loses it in a gutter where he falls during
his escape. The locksmith subsequently dies of an infection caused
by the mud. The discovery of the flying bicycle is lost for ever.
2. The
Shadow district revolts (1946)
description is being prepared
3. The
secret of the Big Vont (1986)
description is being prepared
* The legendary TV series "The Mystery of a puzzle" was first aired
in December 24, 1969.
* Širokko - mysterious figure of the Shadow District |
