The Theft at the Assumption Cathedral and Other Stories

In the early 20th century, the mere mention of his name made swindlers and criminals of all kinds cross themselves furiously and try to blend into the crowd. Arkady Frantsevich Koshko. The Russian Sherlock Holmes, chief detective of the Russian Empire. Head of the Moscow criminal investigation police. It was he who developed the system for identifying individuals, and also created a photographic, anthropometric, and fingerprint card catalog of criminals. And as a result: in 1913, at the International Congress of Criminalists held in Switzerland, the Russian investigative police was recognized as the best in the world in terms of solving crimes. And it’s not surprising—since the head was Koshko…

A. F. Koshko. In this collection, you can expect audio versions of the most gripping and chilling crimes investigated by the celebrated detective: “The King of Swindlers,” “The Dream of Love,” “The Pink Diamond,” “Vaska Smyslov,” “A Commercial Enterprise,” “A Tough Assignment,” “The Gilevich Case,” “The Victims of Pinkerton,” “Sashka the Seminarian,” “The Psychopath Woman,” “Theft in the Dormition Cathedral.”