Drama in Livonia

“The Drama in Lyfland” is Jules Verne’s detective novel, written in 1893 and published in 1904. The plot centers on the struggle for supremacy in the Riga city council between two parties—“the Slavic” party, supported mostly by the lower classes, the proletariat and the peasantry, and the “German” party, supported by the upper classes—the nobility and large bourgeoisie. And in the murder of the banker cooperative leader Poka, the head of the “Slavic” party is suspected…

Chapter 1. At the Border
Chapter 2. A Russian for a Russian
Chapter 3. The Nіcolai’s
Chapter 4. By the Post
Chapter 5. The Inn “Byways”
Chapter 6. Russians and Germans
Chapter 7. The Investigation
Chapter 8. At the University of Yuryev
Chapter 9. The Denunciation
Chapter 10. The Interrogation
Chapter 11. The Trial of the Mob
Chapter 12. Vladimir Yаnov
Chapter 13. A Search
Chapter 14. Blow after Blow
Chapter 15. At the Grave
Chapter 16. The Confession