A Fine Red Rain: An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery - Hardcover

Kaminsky, Stuart M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684186667 ISBN 13: 9780684186665

Publisher: Scribner, 1987

Synopsis

Inspector Rostnikov, demoted for annoying the KGB, is assigned to the local Moscow police where he investigates several strange deaths at the circus

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About the Author

Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934 2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life s work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood s Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote "Bullet for a Star", his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life.Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as the anti-Philip Marlowe. In 1981 s "Death of a Dissident", Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009.

From the Inside Flap

cops are on the case as multiple murders sweep the city. There's Rostnikov, once a hero in the great war against Hitler, recently demoted after clashing with the KGB. There's young Sasha, who looks more like a kid than a cop. And there's Karpo, intelligent and determined, feared by criminals. Together, they would track down the killers -- but what if their search led into forbidden areas, into the Kremlin itself?

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684186667
• ISBN 13: 9780684186665
• Binding: Board book
• Edition number: 1