New PDF release: Harlequin's Costume (Putilin Trilogy)

By Leonid Yuzefovich

ISBN-10: 1782670297

ISBN-13: 9781782670292

The yr is 1871. Prince von Ahrensburg, Austria's army connecté to St. Petersburg, has been killed in his personal mattress. The homicide threatens diplomatic outcomes for Russia so dire that they can regulate the process heritage. major the research into the high-ranking diplomat's demise is leader Inspector Ivan Putilin, however the Tsar has also referred to as within the infamous 3rd division - the much-feared mystery police - at the suspicion that the homicide is politically encouraged. because the clues collect, the checklist of suspects grows longer; there are even rumors of a werewolf at huge within the capital. Suspicion falls at the diplomat's lover and her cuckolded husband, in addition to Russian, Polish and Italian revolutionaries, let alone Turkish spies. real to his maxim that "coincidence and keenness are the genuine conspirators," Putilin seeks solutions contained in the diplomatic circus to boot, which leads him to struggles with criminals and with the key police itself. while the secret is solved, the single one that observed it coming used to be Putilin.

Harlequins dress is the 1st quantity in a sequence whose major personality is predicated at the real-life Ivan Putilin, the Tsars leader of Police in St. Petersburg from 1866 to 1892. the full trilogy, leader Inspector Putilin, seemed as a mini-series on Russian tv in 2007. Brilliantly translated via Marian Schwartz, Harlequins gown is now for the 1st time being released in English.

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