Red Chameleon: An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov MysteryThe violent and inexplicable murder of an old man in his bathtub and the theft of a worthless candlestick send Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov on a hunt into the past . . . A ring of car thieves with a taste for expensive vehicles is at large in Moscow's streets . . . High above the gray city, a sniper is taking aim at police officers, and the obsessed detective Emil Karpo takes the assignment to heart . . . "Kaminsky works up plenty of sweaty-palmed suspense of the best sort, built out of equal parts of likeable characters and believable dangers." Washington Post Book World |
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... Ukraine Hotel who swore that he heard someone weep- ing loudly on the roof of the hotel on the night of the third shooting . Since the bullets had certainly come from the hotel roof , the sniper had been given the nickname the Weeper ...
... Ukraine Hotel who swore that he heard someone weep- ing loudly on the roof of the hotel on the night of the third shooting . Since the bullets had certainly come from the hotel roof , the sniper had been given the nickname the Weeper ...
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... deliver warm water but from which he expected only a cool dip . After Vera Shepovik had fired her rifle from the roof of the Ukraine Hotel , she had not wept . She had sobbed in frustration when the gun had jammed after the first shot 47.
... deliver warm water but from which he expected only a cool dip . After Vera Shepovik had fired her rifle from the roof of the Ukraine Hotel , she had not wept . She had sobbed in frustration when the gun had jammed after the first shot 47.
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... Ukraine Hotel , the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance Building , the Mir Hotel on Kalinin Prospekt , the Moskva Hotel on Sverdlov Square , the Izvestia building on Gorky Street , all the buildings from which it is believed the ...
... Ukraine Hotel , the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance Building , the Mir Hotel on Kalinin Prospekt , the Moskva Hotel on Sverdlov Square , the Izvestia building on Gorky Street , all the buildings from which it is believed the ...
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