Treasure In Roubles To steal a painting from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad is going to take planning, nerve, fitness and ingenuity and that's how Sergey Vasilefski does the job, unaided. But getting the Painting out of Russia has to involve others. The police come to suspect members of the Baroque Circle, a cultural group on a visit from England. That suspicion deepens when a Circle member is brutally murdered during the interval at the Kirov Opera House. The President of the Circle is naturally horrified - and so is her husband, merchant banker Mark Treasure!
So Treasure finds himself in the most beautiful of Russian cities with a pressing need to uncover a murderer ahead of the investigating authorities and in order to protect thirteen richly assorted fellow travellers. He forces a resolution with logic, a touch of bravura. the help of assistant Peregrine Gore (last encountered in Treasure up in Smoke), and a masterly exercise in always sensitive co-operation with Colonel Maxim Grinyev, the enigmatic,
entertaining and superbly drawn Anglophile State Security officer in Leningrad.
Readers who have come to expect wit, original characters, authentic, researched backgrounds, and a credible, exciting outcome in a David Williams whodunnit should be delighted by this tenth Treasure mystery, and not least by the insights into the earthy human motivations met in this refreshingly unpolemical tale.
Treasure Up In Smoke King Charles Island in the Caribbean was out of this 20th-century-world - or so banker Mark Treasure thought when business took him there. But even this enchanted isle, blessed with a benevolent despot and a trade in very special cigars, was not exempt from murder.
Treasure In Roubles
Treasure In Roubles