This is a detective novel set in Russia in 1926. Ivy Litvinov nee Low was an Englishwoman, who was then living in Russia and married to a Russian. The writing and plot is passable, the main interest is the contemporary view of 1920's Russia. Russia after the Revolution but before Stalin seems very different than post Stalin, the society is not so controlled; the author goes off on little polemics occasionally about the new society cleaning up the debris of the revolution and wars.
His Master's Voice first published 1930
Sunday, January 6, 2008
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