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A Razor Wrapped in Silk

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A Razor Wrapped in Silk - Morris, R. N.
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St Petersburg. 1870. A child factory worker is mysteriously abducted. A society beauty is sensationally murdered. Two very different crimes show up the deep fissures in Russian society of the late tsarist period. The first is barely noticed by the authorities. The latter draws the full investigative might of St Petersburg's finest, led by magistrate Porfiry Petrovich. The dead woman had powerful friends - including at least one member of the Romanov family - so when the tsar's notorious secret police becomes involved, it ...

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A Razor Wrapped in Silk 2010, Faber & Faber, London

ISBN-13: 9780571241156

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