Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a philosopher and researcher of the human soul, writer and film director, one of the most successful European playwrights, a man who, in his books “The Gospel of Pilate”, “The Sect of Egoists”, “Oscar and the Pink Lady”, “ Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran", "Another's Share" asked questions to God and Pontius Pilate, Buddha and Mohammed, Freud, Mozart and Denis Diderot. In the collection of short stories "The Dreamer from Ostend" Schmitt, as always, intrigues the reader: the mysterious glove that Emma Van A. kept all her life, the ideal crime, the secret of beauty, and finally, why it is dangerous to read pulp novels in adulthood. The author offers brilliant and completely unexpected plot solutions.