The Winter Queen
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Published: May 1, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780297829744
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Crime & mystery; Mystery/Suspense
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.