Description
St Petersburg, 1914: imposing, shabby and seething with plots and secret allegiances. On a blustery March day, OV Gulko, a respected newspaper editor, is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days later Dr Otto Spethmann, the famous psychoanalyst, receives a visit from the police. There has been another murder in the city and somehow he is implicated. He is deeply worried, as much for his young, spirited daughter as for himself (back cover).
