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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... simply assumed the pale man was mad or meditating ; in fact , they were quite close to the truth . Karpo never gave a label to his moments and even hours of concentration . He simply lost himself in the problem to which he had been ...
... simply assumed the pale man was mad or meditating ; in fact , they were quite close to the truth . Karpo never gave a label to his moments and even hours of concentration . He simply lost himself in the problem to which he had been ...
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... simply stared at her for five minutes , and she left in angry defeat . Two weeks later he left the hospital and ignored Rostnikov's suggestion that he see a doctor who might know what he was talking about . " My wife's cousin ...
... simply stared at her for five minutes , and she left in angry defeat . Two weeks later he left the hospital and ignored Rostnikov's suggestion that he see a doctor who might know what he was talking about . " My wife's cousin ...
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... simply formulate another theory , and another and another , and pursue until he caught the Weeper or someone else did So. " You will have your men atop buildings , but I cannot take responsibility for placing anyone across from KGB head ...
... simply formulate another theory , and another and another , and pursue until he caught the Weeper or someone else did So. " You will have your men atop buildings , but I cannot take responsibility for placing anyone across from KGB head ...
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