Montecristo
The Left Hand Joke
From the novel The Count of Monte Cristo: Moved by envy, Danglars, the ship’s scribe and candidate for the appointment of captain, organizes a trap to frame Edmond with the complicity of Fernand Mondego, in love with Mercédès, and Gaspard Caderousse, Dantès’ envious neighbor. An anonymous letter is thus written, with the left hand so as to make it unrecognizable, in which he denounces Edmond accusing him of being a Bonapartist agent.