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R.N. Morris: The Cleansing Flames

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: «It's Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a body rises to the surface of the Winter Canal. Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry Petrovich is drawn into an investigation of the radical intellectuals who seek to fan the flames of revolution. In the meantime, junior…

R.N. Morris: A Razor Wrapped in Silk

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: St Petersburg. 1870. A child factory worker is mysteriously abducted. A society beauty is sensationally murdered. Two very different crimes show up the deep fissures in Russian society of the late tsarist period. The first is barely noticed by the authorities. The latter draws the full investigative might of St Petersburg's finest, led by magistrate Porfiry Petrovich. The dead woman had powerful…

R.N. Morris: A Gentle Axe

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «An atmospheric mystery set in St Petersburg in the winter of 1867 sees detective Porfiry Petrovich taking his first murder case since Dostoevsky's «Crime and Punishment». When two frozen bodies are found in a park, he begins to suspect that the truth may be more complex than others wish him to believe, as his investigations lead him to a shocking discovery which reveals the city's darkest…