The Chimera Case
7 hrs. 51 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Max Gavrilov
Author
Max Gavrilov
Narrator
Oleg Tomilin
Narrator
Oleg Tomilin
St. Petersburg, May 1811. The air is thick with anxiety: the Russian Empire, sensing an imminent war with Napoleon, lives in anticipation of disaster. The Inquiry Clerk of the Office of Public Order, Count Andrei Izvolsky, receives an assignment to investigate the strange deaths of four people who poisoned themselves with an unknown drink.
Not long before that, a carriage carrying crates of wine overturned into a canal. The men pulled out several bottles, drank—and soon died in horrific convulsions. The faces of the dead, with wide-open eyes, blackened tongues, and chins as if burned by flames, seem to Izvolsky something inhuman—like a chimera.
When he begins his investigation, Izvolsky finds out that the cause of death was not the wine, but printing ink. An unexpected clue leads him to underground counterfeiters printing fake money. What initially looked like a routine inspection turns into a trail pointing to a much more dangerous secret—a conspiracy of the French secret service, trying on the eve of the invasion to undermine the Russian economy.
Not long before that, a carriage carrying crates of wine overturned into a canal. The men pulled out several bottles, drank—and soon died in horrific convulsions. The faces of the dead, with wide-open eyes, blackened tongues, and chins as if burned by flames, seem to Izvolsky something inhuman—like a chimera.
When he begins his investigation, Izvolsky finds out that the cause of death was not the wine, but printing ink. An unexpected clue leads him to underground counterfeiters printing fake money. What initially looked like a routine inspection turns into a trail pointing to a much more dangerous secret—a conspiracy of the French secret service, trying on the eve of the invasion to undermine the Russian economy.
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