The Queen of Diamonds is an attractive and noble thief known as Baroness von Stähl or Agatha Kern. She specializes in robbing the richest and most faithless men, as if correcting their moral crimes. Alexey Pushkin—an investigator and colleague of Rodion Vanzarov—sees in Agatha not only a criminal, but… a helper. And… a woman.
Anton Chizh’s new historical detective story unveils plots connected with a Romani curse and the fate of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, focusing attention on other—other, younger and more romantic—characters in the Vanzarov universe.