Dmitri and the One-Legged Lady
A dreamy province of Tsarist Russia. An ambitious young lawyer of Scottish-Russian descent anxious t...
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A dreamy province of Tsarist Russia. An ambitious young lawyer of Scottish-Russian descent anxious to make his way. And the One-Legged Lady goes missing. A nasty case of kidnapping? Not quite, for the One-Legged Lady is just the popular name of one of the most important icons in the district. Exactly how important, the sceptical Dmitri, whose task it is to track her down, comes to see.Who has taken her and for what reason? Is it someone interested in adding to his art collection? Is it, as some darkly suggest, just the monastery cashing in on its assets? Or has it something to do with a wave of popular feeling at a time of famine? The sinister Volkov, from the Tsar's Corps of Gendarmes, suspects the latter - which means trouble for some innocent people unless Dmitri gets there first!
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