Dmitri and the One-Legged Lady - Hardcover

Pearce, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002326701 ISBN 13: 9780002326704

Publisher: Collins Crime, 1999

Synopsis

A fery nice copy. 2nd in series.

About this title

Review:

Praise for Michael Pearce:

‘Irresistible fun’ Time Out

‘Impeccable historical detail ... enjoyable reading’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Pearce takes apart ancient history and reassembles it with beguiling wit and colour’ Sunday Times

‘Ingeniously imagined and zestfully written’ Literary Review

‘A wily protagonist and racing narrative combine for perfect entertainment’ Time Out

From the Back Cover:

'DMITRI AND THE ONE-LEGGED LADY' Michael Pearce

A dreamy province of Tsarist Russia. An ambitious young lawyer of Scottish-Russian descent anxious to make his way. And the One-Legged Lady goes missing. A nasty case of kidnapping? Not quite, for the One-Legged Lady is just the popular name of one of the most important icons in the district. Exactly how important, the sceptical Dmitri, whose task it is to track her down, comes to see.

Who has taken her and for what reason? Is it someone interested in adding to his art collection? Is it, as some darkly suggest, just the monastery cashing in on its assets? Or has it something to do with a wave of popular feeling at a time of famine? The sinister Volkov, from the Tsar's Corps of Gendarmes, suspects the latter – which means trouble for some innocent people unless Dmitri gets there first!

Dmitri finds, to his surprise, that the icon, which he had taken merely as an irrelevant relic from the past, raises some awkward issues about the present and that the One-Legged Lady is very much alive and kicking.

'DMITRI AND THE ONE-LEGGED LADY' is the second novel in the witty and fascinating new series by Michael Pearce which pits the wily and determined Dmitri Kameron against the oppressive forces of the Tsarist regime.

MICHAEL PEARCE grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the various tensions he draws on for his award-winning Mamur Zapt series. He was trained as a Russian interpreter during the Cold War for military intelligence work, and has retained an active human rights interest in the area ever since. He believes that there was a brief period towards the end of the Tsarist regime and before the coming of the Communists when democratic institutions and an independent legal system might have got off the ground in Russia, and that if they had, the whole course of history would have been different. It is this period, the 1890s that he makes the setting for his new Russian series.

He now lives in London and is the author of ten Mamur Zapt novels, including 'The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt', for which he was awarded the Crime Writer's Association's prestigious Last Laugh Award for the funniest crime novel of the year.

Praise for Michael Pearce's 'Dmitri and the Milk-Drinkers'

"A wily protagonist and racing narrative combine for perfect entertainment."
MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI, 'Time Out'

"Ingeniously imagined and zestfully written, with a plot that would rouse Oblomov from his bed... brisks along smelling of birch trees and vodka."
PHILIP OAKES, 'Literary Review'

Praise for Michael Pearce's 'The Mamur Zapt Novels '

"Michael Pearce's light touch and witty dialogue make this series a continuing delight"
SUSSANNA YAGER, 'Sunday Telegraph'

"Sheer fun"
MARCEL BERLINS, 'The Times'

"This series continues to be the most delightful in current detective fiction"
GERALD KAUFMAN, 'Scotsman'

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Crime
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0002326701
• ISBN 13: 9780002326704
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176