Ural Echo

The action of Nikolai Svechin’s novel “Ural Echo” takes place in the summer of 1913: in St. Petersburg, an inspector of the detective police goes missing. His body is not found, but it’s obvious that he was killed by criminals.

Suspicion falls on a major metropolitan criminal authority known as Count Platov. The search for the murderer has hit a dead end, but during it they manage to discover stolen platinum from the Ural mines. Terrorists from the gang of an Ural action writer Lbov dug the treasure of their ataman out of the ground—and are preparing to murder the Tsar with this money! Lykov and his assistant Azvestopulo urgently travel to the Ural capital, Yekaterinburg, where they manage to uncover a scheme of embezzlement of precious metals, arrest Platov, and crush the local Socialist Revolutionaries. But they had no idea they themselves would end up dragged into a criminal whirlpool…