The Case of the Heir Apparent

Sent to France, Senior Investigator of the Investigative Committee Orest Volin takes with him another batch of diaries of Nestor Vasilyevich Zagorsky. This time, the pages of the manuscript tell the story that occurred with the detective in 1891 in... China and Japan. What drove him to travel so far to the East, especially with only a month for the journey? As always, matters of state importance, which only Nestor Vasilyevich can handle. For just last year, the heir to the Russian throne, Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov, embarked on a great sea voyage. The last in the series of countries the heir apparent will visit will be China and Japan. And it is there that irreparable things may happen...