Lord Lister No. 0305: De schijndooden

The narrative opens with a gravely wounded, aristocratic-looking stranger admitted to a London hospital under an assumed name, whose presence draws nurses, a pleading young woman, and two late-night visitors later arrested amid conflicting police denials. As staff and detectives probe his identity and motives, the patient alternately withholds information and anxiously awaits news of the woman claimed to be his companion, while a web of private investigators, forged identities, and unexplained communications gradually reveals a broader plot of deception and calculated danger that hospital routine cannot contain.