Leonid Yuzefovich “The House of Appointments”—the second novel in the detective trilogy about the famous 19th-century Petersburg sleuth Ivan Putilin.
In a house of appointments, a merchant, Kukolev, is murdered. Not long before that, his mother disappears under mysterious circumstances. Then it turns out that a naval customs officer’s employee has been poisoned by poison… How are these events connected, and what does the mysterious phrase “The Sign of Seven Stars will open the Gates” have to do with it? Sleuth Ivan Dmitrievich Putilin uncovers the secret of the “Seven Stars,” and a red umbrella helps him with that…
This historical detective story will delight both specialists in 19th-century history and simply fans of this exciting genre.