در کتاب خواندنی آنسوی آینه Through The Looking Glass آلیس Alice با پیروی از تصمیم ازادانه خود وارد شهر اینه می شود تا دوباره به گشت و گذار و تفریح و اشنایی با دیگر موجودات بپردازد. در این شهر همه چیز از اصول و قواعد شطرنج پیروی می کند و آلیس Alice تنها یک سرباز محسوب می شود. همه چیز به ظاهر خوب است اما او نمی داند که با پیمودن هریک از خانه های این شطرنج قرار است با چه چیزهایی روبرو شود و دوباره وارد چه ماجراهای عجیب و غریبی شود...
The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them.
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers... But who has actually seen him?