The Past Affairs

A new book in stylish design by the most fashionable author of retro-detectives, Nikolai Svechin, and the most popular after Akunin in the genre! The book is part of the series about the detective Alexei Lykov and is the 34th... in the series, but it can also be read as a standalone work. The book consists of five novellas that take the reader back to the times of young Lykov and the still-living Blagovo. Terribly eerie mysterious incidents from one of the most popular authors of historical detectives, winner of the Russian Detective award Nikolai Svechin. In the spring of 1884, dark, heavy ice melted on the Neva late. A damp, raw wind began to wash grotesque swollen corpses onto the shores and shallows. This time there were simply monstrous numbers of them. However, the St. Petersburg police quickly and without a shadow of a doubt found the reasons: either drowning due to carelessness, or inebriation, or in a stupor. Accidents, what can you do… The Deputy Director of the Police Department, Pavel Afanasyevich Blagovo, disagrees with the official point of view. Together with Alexei Lykov, he seeks permission for a second autopsy of a certain innkeeper Ostashkov, who supposedly fell into the river while drunk. The results of the analysis of the water in the deceased's lungs astonish Blagovo…