Ural Echo

A gripping historical detective novel by the winner of the Russian Detective Award, Nikolai Svechin.
 
The action of Nikolai Svechin's novel "Ural Echo" takes place in the summer of 1913: in St. Petersburg, a detective police supervisor has gone missing. The... body has not been found, but it is evident that he was killed by criminals.
Suspicion falls on a prominent criminal authority known as Count Platov. The search for the murderer has hit a dead end, but during the investigation, stolen platinum from the Ural mines was discovered. Terrorists from the gang of Ural militant Lvov have unearthed the treasure of the ataman and are preparing to use this money to assassinate the tsar! Lykov and his assistant Azvestopulo urgently left for the Ural capital, Yekaterinburg, where they managed to uncover a scheme of thefts of precious metals, arrest Platov, and crush the local Social Revolutionaries. But they certainly did not expect to find themselves embroiled in a criminal whirlpool...