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The second in the delightfully witty and diverting new crime series set in Tsarist Russia from the award-winning Michael Pearce. A dreamy province of Tsarist Russia in the 1980s. An ambitious young lawyer. And the One-Legged Lady, one of the most important ikons in the district, goes missing. Exactly how important she is, the sceptical Dmitri, whose task it is to track her down, will soon find out. Who has taken her and for why? The sinister Volkov, from the Tsar's Corps of Gendarmes, suspects the theft has something to do with a wave of popular feeling at a time of famine - which means trouble for some innocent people, unless Dmitri gets there first...
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Michael Pearce was raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, where his fascination for language began. He later trained as a Russian interpreter but moved away from languages to follow an academic career, first as a lecturer in English and the History of Ideas, and then as an administrator. Michael Pearce now lives in London and is best known as the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books.
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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
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- Publication date2017
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