Rat in the Temple. Gilyarovsky and Eliseev

Andrei Dobrov is a well-known Russian journalist, TV and radio host, and publicist, author of an information-and-analytical program. Listeners are offered a cycle of his historical detective stories about the famous “king of reporters” Vladimir Gilyarovsky— a man of high intelligence and refined intuition. He could communicate equally smoothly with law-abiding people and with the criminal element of old Moscow.

“Rat in a Temple...” is the fourth book in the cycle. You can expect intriguing plot twists, vivid descriptions of old Moscow, and gripping details of how the trade business is organized.

…One day, Vladimir Gilyarovsky managed to visit a closed restaurant run by Testov and there met a well-known St. Petersburg millionaire, Grigory Eliseev. From him, the reporter received an unexpected invitation—to visit a grand construction site the businessman had started on Tverskaya Street. No one really knew what was being built behind the high fence—and certainly no one knew that a mysterious Red Ghost regularly wandered around the construction site... Soon, a series of monstrous crimes occurs—someone methodically kills random visitors to the site. Involuntarily pulled into these events, Gilyarovsky begins an investigation...