William Cobb is the pseudonym of the French writer and journalist Jules Lerminá (1839–1915), under which he published his early novels. After several unsuccessful attempts to start his own business, in 1859 Lermina began a journalistic career and took the side of the socialists, which led him to several stays in prison. Lermina left a rich creative heritage, which includes adventure novels (including sequels to “Parisian Mysteries” by Eugene Sue and “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas), “police” novels and stories, as well as a biographical dictionary and a dictionary of argot. Fates The heroes of the novel “Mysteries of New York” are intricately intertwined, forming an extremely tangled ball, the threads of which lead to the past... Before his death, the largest banker in the past, Tillinghast, reveals to his daughter a secret that will make her a millionaire and will allow him to destroy his former partner Arnold Mesi, who ruined Tillinghast. But to carry out this revenge, she must marry the tramp and swindler Bam, who is actually John Gardwin - the son of Michael Gardwin, who was hanged ten years ago for the murder of his brother...