Rostnikov's Vacation
Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 1993-01
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ISBN : 9780749312879
Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 1993-01
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ISBN : 9780749312879
Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453273530
Murder intrudes on a Moscow cop’s vacation: “Kaminsky’s Rostnikov novels are among the best mysteries being written” (The San Diego Union-Tribune). Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is finding spring in Yalta to be quite lovely. Accompanying his wife, Sarah, as she gets much needed rest and recuperation after her surgery, reading American crime novels, and gazing at the Black Sea, the Moscow cop is reasonably content—even if his superiors did insist that he take this vacation. But his time off is destined to be short-lived. A former colleague with emphysema has come south to improve his health. Instead Georgi Vasilievich has dropped dead from what appears to be heart failure. The inspector is not so sure. The local officials want to sweep the incident under the rug. But it turns out Vasilievich was investigating a high-level military conspiracy. Rostnikov takes a look at his files, putting him on the trail of a gang of hardliners who refuse to give up the Soviet dream—and who will go to murderous lengths to ensure that perestroika never comes to pass. With his Edgar Award–winning Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov series, “Kaminsky takes care not to rob his beleaguered cops of their human core—a courtesy he also extends to Moscow, which comes across as a character in its own right: rough and dangerous and somehow tragic” (The New York Times).
Author : Gary Warren Niebuhr
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Presents a comprehensive guide for mystery and detective fiction, compiling over 2,500 titles from more than 200 authors and including plot overviews, a history of the genre, and a discussion on collection development.
Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2000-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743211618
Moscow's top cops are on the case as multiple murders sweep the city. There's Rostnikov, once a hero in the great war against Hitler, recently demoted after clashing with the KGB. There's young Sasha, who looks more like a kid than a cop. And there's Karpo, intelligent and determined, feared by criminals. Together, they would track down the killers -- but what if their search led into forbidden areas, into the Kremlin itself?
Author : Jo Ann Vicarel
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This essential sourcebook to the police procedural offers mystery fans fully annotated entries on 1,115 titles by 271 authors in the genre. The perfect guide to classic novels by Lawrence Treat, Ngaio Marsh, and John Creasey, the volume also covers more recent works by such leading writers as Patricia Cornwell, Ed McBain, and Tony Hillerman. As with previous volumes in this series detailed cross-reference listings, including Pseudonyms, Creators and Series Characters, and Periods, Locations, and Setting of the stories, as well as the addition of chapters on novels featuring serial killers and on U.S. and U.K. police agencies, make this one-of-a-kind reference an invaluable resource for fans, occasional readers, and mystery book collectors alike.
Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765318862
Inspector Rostnikov returns! “The Ed McBain of Mother Russia!”--Kirkus
Author : Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9049983421
Just days after the end of the USSR, a mysterious priest becomes a martyr In service of his beloved Orthodox Church, Father Merhum has spent decades battling Soviet apparatchiks and the KGB. Now the Soviet Union is gone, but the bureaucracy survives, and the aged priest makes plans to denounce Communist supporters, including some within the Church. He is on his way to Moscow when an assassin stops him with an ax. And as he dies, Merhum begs for forgiveness—a curious plea from a saint-to-be. The case falls to police inspectors Porfiry Rostnikov and Emil Karpo—a ruthless detective whose eerie appearance has earned him the nickname “the vampire.” But as they dig into the past of this celebrated village priest, they uncover strange church secrets and a conspiracy that would ensure that though Soviet Russia is finished, corruption will never die.
Author : Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 125002580X
The eighth novel in Qiu Xiaolong's acclaimed Chinese crime series sees Inspector Chen confronted by a terrible choice between Party politics or his principles - with his career at stake
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction genres
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Author : B. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230107354
Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.