It is the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor's wife and son die suddenly - and in excruciating pain. The doctor is arrested, suspected of poisoning. As investigator Porfiry Petrovich concedes, in such cases the obvious solution often turns out to be the correct one. And in the city's stifling, stinking atmosphere, even he lacks the energy to look any deeper. But when further (and apparently unconnected) murders occur, something like a pattern seems to emerge. Porfiry is forced to reassess his assumptions and follow a tenuous, uncertain trail that takes him into the hidden, squalid heart of the city and brings him face to face with incomprehensible horror and cruelty.

A Vengeful Longing

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

R.N. Morris

Mystery

Faber&Faber

Faber and Faber

It's the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor's wife and son die suddenly and the doctor is arrested, suspected of poisoning. But when further, apparently unconnected, murders occur, Porfiry Petrovich is forced to reassess his assumptions. Delving into the hidden, squalid heart of the city, he is brought face to face with incomprehensible horror and cruelty, in this vivid rendering of a brutal and stifling nineteenth-century St Petersburg.

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 of 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. The dead woman had powerful friends - including at least one member of the Romanov family - so when the tsar's notorious secret police becomes involved, it seems that both crimes may have a political - not to say revolutionary - aspect. A trail of missing children leads to a shocking discovery that takes Porfiry inside the Winter Palace for a confrontation with the Tsar himself. The usually incisive magistrate grows increasingly unsure what to believe, who to trust and how to proceed. His very life appears to be in danger, though from whom he can't be sure...

Razor Wrapped in Silk

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Sociology Of Housing (International Library of Sociology)

John Mogey

Routledge

The Gentle Axe

Genre Fiction

Tantor Media, Inc.

In the steaming St.Petersberg summer of 1868, a doctor's wife and retarded son die a hideous death by poisoning. The doctor is the prime suspect of Investigating Magistrate, Porfiry Petrovich, who discovers that the poison was contained in the special chocolates that the doctor brought home for his wife every week. Very shortly afterwards, a man is stabbed and left to die on the street, and an army colonel is shot to death in his own home. Despite there being at first, no obvious connection beteen the three events, Porfiry is convinced that there is a definite link which connects them all and, with his new assitant, Virginsky, travels all over the city, interviewing anyone who had anything at all to do with any of the victims. His travels take him to unbelievably appalling slums which make those of Dickens's London seem like palaces..I've never read worse! The conditions under which the poorest of the peasant classes live defy description so that the reader may see the roots of the Russian revolution forming. I cannot say that it was a particularly enjoyable read but it was certainly a well written account of murder and abject poverty,

A Vengeful Longing (Unabridged)

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