Publisher's Synopsis
THE GOLDEN BEETLE tells of the discovery of a treasure, the adventure takes place in the nineteenth century, on Sullivan's Island near Charleston. The narrator recounts an event of the friendship that he struck up with William Legrand (a lonely man), Legrand lived on the island with a servant named Jupiter. On one of his visits to his friend Legrand, the melancholy man told him that he had found a beetle that looked like gold, Legrand drew the beetle on a parchment and gave it to his friend to observe, but his close only managed to say that the drawing looked like a skull, Legrand sullenly took the parchment and examined it; finally he put the parchment in a drawer; his friend, noticing Legrand's mood, decided to leave. After the friend received a visit from Jupiter, he told him that his master Legrand was sick because he was behaving in a strange way, he also expressed that he seemed obsessed with the gold beetle and that perhaps his behavior was related to the bite of that animal .
