In an Arcadian province of Tsarist Russia, ambitious young lawyer
Dmitri, first seen in Pearce's Dmitri and the Milk Drinkers,
struggles to make a name for himself. And when an important icon
(the One-Legged Lady of the title) goes missing, Dmitri finds that
it is his task to track her down. Pearce has a devoted following
for his Egyptian Mamur Zapt novels, and this second volume in a new
series has precisely the same kind of brilliant scene-setting and
effortlessly researched historical detail that give his intelligent
thrillers such a solid background. (Kirkus UK)
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. An ambitious young lawyer of
Scottish-Russian descent anxious to make his way. And the
One-Legged Lady goes missing. A nasty case of kidnapping? Not
quite, for the One-Legged Lady is just the popular name of one of
the most important ikons in the district. Exactly how important,
the sceptical Dmitri, whose task it is to track her down, comes to
see. Who has taken her and for what reason? Is it someone
interested in adding to his art collection? Is it, as some darkly
suggest, just the monastery cashing in on its assets? Or has it
something to do with a wave of popular feeling at a time of famine?
The sinister Volkov, from the Tsar's Corps of Gendarmes, suspects
the latter -- which means trouble for some innocent people unless
Dmitri gets there first Dmitri finds, to his surprise, that the
ikon, which he had taken merely as an irrelevant relic from the
past, raises some awkward issues about the present and that the
One-Legged Lady is very much alive and kicking. Dmitri and the
One-Legged Lady is the second novel in the
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