The Winter Queen
Subtitle: A Novel (Erast Fandorin Mysteries)
Contributors: Andrew Bromfield (Translator)
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: March 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780812968774
Subjects: Russian Novel And Short Story; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Fiction; Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Reading Group Guide; Mystery & Detective - General
First sentence: ON MONDAY THE THIRTEENTH OF MAY IN THE year 1876, between the hours of two and three in the afternoon on a day that combined the freshness of spring with the warmth of summer, numerous individuals in Moscow's Alexander Gardens unexpectedly found themselves eyewitnesses to the perpetration of an outrage that flagrantly transgressed the bounds of common decency.