The Kazan Avenger

9 hrs. 40 min.

Language Russian

Author Evgeny Sukhov

Narrator Alexey Dankov

To catch the killer, the detective will have to find himself in the crosshairs.

1904. The judicial investigator for especially important cases, Ivan Fedorovich Volovtsov, travels to Kazan, where strange murders occur one after another. The dead—a civil servant, a merchant, and a staff-captain—were shot with rare weapons: bullets with a hexagonal base leave no doubt that the same shooter is at work. At the same time, each victim had good reason to fear revenge. The civil servant uncovered large-scale embezzlements at a gunpowder factory; the merchant, after building a mill, crossed paths with competitors; the staff-captain openly spoke out against the Social Revolutionaries, whose influence was growing… Volovtsov checks each version step by step, but the criminal stays one step ahead of the investigation. The next target is the vice-governor. And again, the same hexagonal bullet surfaces… The investigation seems hopelessly tangled until a person with a distinctive appearance appears in the case—someone capable of tying the scattered threads together…

A historical detective story about a crime at the dawn of the last century. The author recreates the era so vividly that it’s as if you can hear the clatter of wheels on the cobblestones, the roar of the market, the ringing of church bells, and the sharp whistles of city watchmen…

1. The Genius of the Capital Detective (narrated by Sergey Udelov) 2. The Enamored Villain (narrated by Sergey Udelov) 3. The Love Omen (narrated by Alexey Dankov) 4. The Unlucky Room Number (narrated by Evgeny Lebedev) 6. The Secret of the Old Bag (narrated by Sergey Udelov) 7. Provincial Blaze (narrated by Evgeny Lebedev) 8. The Kazan Avenger