Icy wind of Suomi
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Icy wind of Suomi
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It's no wonder that Rautapää, a Finnish-born cashier at a major bank, seized on such a convenient opportunity. The Finnish border was just a stone's throw away. And there, in Helsingfors, swept by icy winds, the Russian police were powerless. Local law enforcement officers, for whom the orders of the imperial authorities were a dead letter, were in charge. Using forged documents, Mr. Rautapää stole nearly three hundred thousand rubles and disappeared...
One day in August 1913, State Councilor Lykov was dispatched to the cold and rainy Finnish capital. His orders were to find, capture, and return the thief along with the money. But the search for the criminal quickly reached a dead end. The cashier was found murdered, and the money he had stolen had vanished without a trace.
There remained one small and almost hopeless clue: a strange note lay near the body, which debunked all previous theories about Lykov and transformed the case from criminal to political...
A gripping historical detective novel by Nikolai Svechin, winner of the Russian Detective Award. This novel is part of a series about detective Alexei Lykov and is the 35th in the series.
One day in August 1913, State Councilor Lykov was dispatched to the cold and rainy Finnish capital. His orders were to find, capture, and return the thief along with the money. But the search for the criminal quickly reached a dead end. The cashier was found murdered, and the money he had stolen had vanished without a trace.
There remained one small and almost hopeless clue: a strange note lay near the body, which debunked all previous theories about Lykov and transformed the case from criminal to political...
A gripping historical detective novel by Nikolai Svechin, winner of the Russian Detective Award. This novel is part of a series about detective Alexei Lykov and is the 35th in the series.
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