The Thief and Other Stories

Nikolai Alekseevich Karpov began his literary career even before the Revolution. He published extensively in periodicals, was friends with A. Grin and Demyan Bedny, and corresponded with Kuprin, Averchenko, and Gumilyov. However… his name isn’t only unknown to the modern Russian reader, but also to those who professionally study the history of Russian literature of the early twentieth century. There is no article about him in the most authoritative reference-biographical edition to date—the “Dictionary of Russian Writers.” Yet Karpov is well known to connoisseurs of Russian detective and science-fiction literature. This collection offers two detective novellas by the writer, “brought up from the depths” of pre-Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary Russian periodicals.

Contents:

“Thief”

“Doctor Kern’s Crime”