Red Chameleon - Hardcover

Kaminsky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684184249 ISBN 13: 9780684184241

Publisher: Scribner, 1985

Synopsis

The trail leads to a high KGB official when Inspector Rostnikov of the Moscow Procurator's Office is assigned to the apparently minor murder case of an elderly Jew who was drowned in his bathtub

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What is the connection between a psychotic woman carrying a trombone case for most unmusical purposes through the streets of Moscow and the theft of the deputy procurator's much-prized automobile? How does the slaying of a young policeman by a sniper relate to the murder of aged Abraham as he reads Izvestia in the bathtub, by intruders who steal a worthless brass candlestick on their way out? And why is it that Abraham's crippled daughter Sofiya is driven by ambivalent feelings toward her dead father? These are among the conundrums confronting Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov of the Moscow Procurator's Office as he trudges painfully through his rounds (like Sofiya, he has a game leg), teasing humorless underlings, sparring with members of the KGB, squinting jaundice-eyed into the cobwebbed corners of the political establishment, where no light shines. Despite a certain ungainliness in scenes of action, the narrative moves easily to an unhappily credible, ironic conclusion. And Rostnitkov, his hopes of emigration with his Jewish wife dashed, faces yet another professional setback with stoic resignation. Following Black Knight in Red Square, this is the fourth novel in a series featuring the appealing, amiable, sore-beset Inspector. n.b. This book is not to be confused with the Bantam paperback of the same title (Paperback Forecasts, Sept. 27), also to be published in November. November
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Edition details

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684184249
• ISBN 13: 9780684184241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 209