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Evgeny Sukhov
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Cover of “A Will the Color of Blood”

Series: Troubled Spring of '45

A Will the Color of Blood

1947. In a Kazan research institute the accountant and the cashier who delivered the staff's wages are robbed and killed.

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Original publisher:
Eksmo
Year:
2025
Language:
Russian (original)
Pages:
201
ISBN:
978-5-04-215199-6
Translations:
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (in preparation)
A Will the Color of BloodExcerpt in Russian.

About the book

1947. In a Kazan research institute the accountant and the cashier who delivered the staff's wages are robbed and killed. Witnesses remembered the raider's dandyish look: bright clothes, a conspicuous yellow beret... With the help of informants, the head of the anti-banditry department, Major Vitaly Shchelkunov, establishes the criminal's nickname: Dandy. This type once began with forging documents and now makes a living from robberies and murders. What is more, the criminal has one peculiarity: when going out on a job he always dresses flashily. But where the killer lives, nobody knows for sure. The detectives would have had to run around a great deal before getting on the villain's trail, were it not for a chance event. One day at the market Dandy himself became the victim of a robber...

A unique chance to return to one of the brightest periods of Soviet history: the postwar time. Real people, real criminal cases, gripping plot twists.

Characters resembling the cult figures of the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed”. The spirit of the time, tenderly kept in many families. An unusual and realistic look at the “kitchen” of the everyday work of the Soviet militia.

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A Will the Color of Blood