Successor from Kolkata

“Heir to Calcutta” is a book of amazing fate. Robert Stilmark created this legendary novel in the Stalin camp by order of one of the criminal authorities. The work that was destined to become imperfect classics of adventure literature, the author wrote in exchange for exemption from exhausting labor in the forestry, receiving the privileged work of the Weseches under the bath. The “Heir to Calcutta” was released in 1958 and was a frantic success with readers, the book immediately became a bestseller, finding himself on the same shelf next to the “Treasure Island” and “Count Monte Cristo”, and the deserved glory of one of the best masters came to Robert Stilmark. adventurous adventure genre. The present publication also includes the afterword of E. R. Stilmark, the daughter of a writer who talks about the life and work of his father and the almost detective story of the creation of his famous novel