A thrilling detective story by David Dickinson.
Our old acquaintance, detective Francis Powerscourt, once again can’t resist investigating a crime of state importance. Despite the urgings of his wife and children, he goes… to St. Petersburg, the northern capital of the Russian Empire—and plunges headfirst into a complex and tangled case, having tasted plenty of Russian national flavor along the way.
Russia in the early 20th century through the eyes of a foreign author of detective novels—this is, in some ways, naive, in some ways ironic, and in some ways very exciting and even quite truthful analysis of an intriguing historical era.