A classic murder mystery by acclaimed crime writer Bernard Knight, set in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. A Russian detective is set to trail a suspected thief as there is reason to believe a national treasure will be stolen...A thrilling take on police work in two countries which, while their politics might have been quite different, were not quite so at odds when it came to stopping criminals.

Author Biography

Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, (born 1931) became a Home Office pathologist in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980. He has been writing since before 1963, when his first crime novel was published. Since then, he has written about thirty books, including contemporary crime fiction, historical novels about Wales, biography, non-fiction popular works on forensic medicine, twelve medico-legal textbooks and the Crowner John Mysteries series of 12th-century historical mysteries.