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Fall of a Cosmonaut

More persistent than fearless, Chief Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov makes his way through a ferocious storm, whose record breaking winds and rain push an iron bench along the street, to get inside the Petrovka headquarters where three peculiar investigations await him.Cosmonaut Tsimion Vladovka's last words on Mir's recorders were instructions to contact rostnikov in case something went wrong with the mission. Vladovka is missing, and his fellow Mir cosmonauts are turning up dead.

Film director Yuri Kriskov is in fear of his life, threatened by the same chess-crazed lunatic who stole the only extant footage of his grand documentary on Tolstoy.

And two detectives enter the strange world of paranormal research to discover who murdered a leading scientist working on psychic phenomena during dream states...

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 277
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780892966684
  • Characters
  • Porfiry Rostnikov
  • Genres
  • mystery, russia, fiction, crime
  • Release date
  • 2000