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ЧАСЫ ДЛЯ МИСТЕРА КЕЛЛИ. КАРСКИЙ РЕЙД. НЕЛЮДЬ : ПОВЕСТИ. СОБРАНИЕ СОЧИНЕНИЙ

Bibliographic Description

Часы для мистера Келли. Карский рейд. Нелюдь : Повести. Собрание сочинений / Вайнеры, Аркадий и Георгий. – М. : Сигма-пресс, 1997. – (Криминальный экспресс). – ISBN 5-85949-099-2.

Author
Вайнеры, Аркадий и Георгий
Publisher
Сигма-пресс
Year of publication
1997
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

In the novella "A Watch for Mr. Kelly", senior inspector Stanislav Tikhonov, already familiar to readers, takes on a new case. In Odessa, a poor, destitute old man named Korzhayev — the "Gobsek of Malaya Arnautskaya Street" — is murdered; gold and diamonds are found in his hiding place, along with stolen components from Moscow-made export watches, the "Stolitsa". The Moscow police manage to track down the criminal gang and prevent an illegal deal with a "foreign" merchant. The ocean and human memory are eternal. The far-off hungry 1920s. The young Soviet Republic organizes the Kara Sea Grain Expedition, sending a caravan of ships along the Northern Sea Route for Siberian grain. Will the heroes of the adventure novella "The Kara Raid" manage to deliver the cargo to its destination? We find this out by reading the novella, in which, alongside historical figures such as L. B. Krasin and V. P. Nogin, fictional characters also act — ordinary builders of revolutionary Russia. Trouble comes to the prosperous family of Zoya Mikhailovna Sherstobitova, chairwoman of the city executive committee, from the screen novella "Not a Human Being": her son Marat, a third-grader, is kidnapped...

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