Daniel Kluger has written an exciting book about prototypes of famous literary heroes - controversial but extremely interesting. The choice of his characters is wide - Captain Nemo and Benya Creek, Count Dracula and Hercule Poirot, Baron Munchausen and Dr. Faust, Golem and Edmond Dantes, citizen Koreiko and Dr. Blood... Having collected their biographies - and the biographies of their prototypes - under one cover and, moreover, in a single text, Kluger managed to tell a lot of curious things along the way. "The Mystery of Captain Nemo" is a kind of literary investigation in which readers participate with the author.