The Gentle Axe
The Gentle Axe
- ISBN 13:
9780143113263
- ISBN 10:
0143113267
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 03/25/2008
- Publisher: Penguin Books
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Summary
Fresh off the case of a deranged student who murdered his landlady, noted police investigator Porfiry Petrovich barely takes a breath before a bizarre and very grisly double murder lands him back on the streets of the tsarist St. Petersburg he knows all too well. The sardonic sleuth follows a trail from the drinking dens of the Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society—a hunt that leads him to a conclusion even he will find shocking. In the tradition of such first-rate historical novels such as The Alienistand The Dante Club, The Gentle Axeis atmospheric and tense storytelling from its dramatic opening to its stunning climax.