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Book 10 of the “Investigations of a Crime Reporter” series

Wives Who Had No Luck

Aida Krokhina, wife of a capital official, has been killed for the purpose of robbery.

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Original publisher:
Eksmo
Year:
2015
Language:
Russian (original)
Pages:
200
ISBN:
978-5-699-81448-0
Translations:
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian (in preparation)
Translated edition published as:
Charles Ashford
Wives Who Had No LuckExcerpt in Russian.

About the book

Aida Krokhina, wife of a capital official, has been killed for the purpose of robbery. Yury Sergeyevich Krokhin himself, according to his testimony, was sitting in a bar at the time of the crime. The crime reporter Aristarkh Rusakov met the inconsolable widower, trying to find out what had been happening in his apartment several hours before the woman's death. Suddenly the private detective Cipriani, who is investigating the case, joined the conversation. He began to persuade the reporter that Yury Sergeyevich has an ironclad alibi that witnesses can confirm. Perhaps Aristarkh would have agreed with this claim if, the next day, he had not learned that another murder with robbery had happened, and this time the victim was the wife of the very same detective Cipriani. The strange coincidence led Aristarkh to a completely staggering conclusion...

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Wives Who Had No Luck