A Razor Wrapped In Silk
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780571241156
Description: 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 during 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.