The novel “Murder on Sukharevsky Market” takes place in Moscow in 1879. A robbery occurs in the house of the collector M. F. Tregubov. One of the bandits rapes Mikhaila Fomich’s niece and, for entertainment, takes from the table a small cheap trinket box belonging to the girl. It seems like nothing special, but then a real hunt begins for it…
The crime was investigated by a judicial investigator Ivan Fedorovich Skopin, a veteran of the Turkestan campaigns, and a young пристав Zakhar Arkhipov, recently arrived from Petersburg. But they couldn’t have imagined that because of some nondescript box so many people would die…