萧十一郎黄日华

剧情简介

American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。省城高官的儿子李世举莫名其妙死在了云香阁，死相怪异，一把匕首插在喉咙里，房门却是从里面反锁的，窗户房顶完好无损，是自杀还是他杀，一时众说纷纭。面对这样棘手的案子，探长突然暴病身亡，京城著名的神探齐悟明来到镇上协破此案。探长刚到就陷入了一个及其复杂的关系网，一面是财政司长李铭君。一面是县长冯尚德，双方各执一词，案件扑朔迷离。二十年前冯尚德之父也死于云香阁，并且死法跟李世举一模一样，新案旧案有如此千丝万缕的关系，这里面有包含了多少不为人知的秘密……。