Loss of Honor and Other Stories

The main character of Andrey Efimovich Zarin’s stories is the talented private detective Patmosov Alexey Romanovich. He is known to everyone who needs his services. Modest and honest, he keeps more than one family secret entrusted to him. Inventive and resourceful to the point of genius, brave, determined, and strong, he solved hundreds of crimes in his life, caught and turned hundreds of criminals over to justice, and stories about his cases are no less entertaining than tales of the feats of the fantastic Sherlock Holmes. Even exemplary investigative police turn to him for help—if not for assistance, then at least for advice—whenever a case becomes truly tangled. In this collection, you’ll find not one, but three investigations by a star of Petersburg’s detective world.