Of the amazing and mysterious personality of Cagliostro, the riddle has never yet been satisfactorily solved. Approaching from a new angle this most baffling of all the problems of biography, the author gives the reader a penetrative study of this enigmatic figure. He does not succeed in dispelling the mystery: it eluded even Photiades' unrivaled thoroughness of research. While meticulously accurate in historical detail, this most astonishing of careers is made the subject of an imaginative recreation in which is combined the fascination of a thriller with the charm of romance.