Ice Wind of Suomi

It's no wonder that the cashier of a major bank, a native of Finland named Rautapää, took advantage of such a convenient opportunity. The Finnish border is just around the corner. And there, in the icy-wind-swept Helsinki, the Russian police are powerless. Local law enforcement, for whom the orders of imperial authorities are just empty words, are in charge. Using forged documents, Mr. Rautapää embezzled almost three hundred thousand rubles and vanished... On one of the days in August 1913, the state advisor Lykov set off for the cold and rainy Finnish capital. The order was to find, catch, and return the thief along with the money. But the search for the criminal quickly reached a dead end. The cashier was found dead, and the money he had stolen disappeared without a trace. There remained one small and almost hopeless lead: a strange note lay beside the corpse, which shattered all of Lykov's previous theories and turned the case from criminal to political...