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An international gang war chooses Moscow as its battlefield in this gripping installment in an Edgar Award–winning crime fiction series.Moscow police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has adapted well to life without Communism. But under the Soviets, blood feuds were pursued in the dark halls of bureaucracy, and now they take place in the streets. An international drug ring has chosen Moscow as its next port of call, and the only thing standing in its way is the budding Russian mob, headed by show more a young man whose brutality is matched only by his madness. In a gang war of this magnitude, no civilian is safe.
As Rostnikov tries to stop an army of two-legged killers, his cohorts at the Moscow police department take on the four-legged variety. Dogfighting in Moscow is big business, and interests in this illegal sport stretch to the highest reaches of their corrupt department. In the new Moscow, death and profit go hand in hand.
The Dog Who Bit a Policeman is the 12th book in Stuart M. Kaminsky's long-running and influential mystery series starring master detective Porfiry Rostnikov. A one-legged, seemingly incorruptible police inspector, he's one of crime fiction's most engaging characters.
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The contemplative, unhurried narration of Stuart Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov series has an undeniable appeal. It moves you, it saddens you (in the circumstances of this series, set first in Soviet Moscow and then in Moscow post-Soviet time), it makes you look life directly in the face, makes you wiser, and you don't want to put the book down. Kaminsky manages to describe even the gruesome details of crimes in a way that doesn't turn you off. But most of all, his characters are so well defined and real, that I even forgive him the unintentional (or intentional?) mess up with a number of Russian names...
Kaminsky passed away in 2009 (he is very missed!), having written 16 Inspector Rostnikov novels, set in Moscow, 15 of which I have show more read - having devoured them with extreme satisfaction that a good book gives, as well as other sets of novels which I am yet to explore. show less
Kaminsky passed away in 2009 (he is very missed!), having written 16 Inspector Rostnikov novels, set in Moscow, 15 of which I have show more read - having devoured them with extreme satisfaction that a good book gives, as well as other sets of novels which I am yet to explore. show less
Though slower starting than other books in the series, this did finally pick up and I enjoyed the rest of the story. The investigation of dog-fighting included descriptions of the fights, which bothered me even though they were not particularly graphic. Worth reading, but it's best if you've read previous entries in the series.
Though slower starting than other books in the series, this did finally pick up and I enjoyed the rest of the story. The investigation of dog-fighting included descriptions of the fights, which bothered me even though they were not particularly graphic. Worth reading, but it's best if you've read previous entries in the series.
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Stuart M. Kaminsky is head of the radio/television/film department at Northwestern University in Illinois. He is also a writer of textbooks, screenplays, and mystery novels. The more popular of his two series of detective novels features Toby Peters. Set in the 1930s and 1940s, the Peters books draw on Kaminsky's knowledge of history and love of show more film by incorporating characters from the film industry's past in nostalgic mysteries. Murder on the Yellow Brick Road (1978), for example, features Judy Garland while Catch a Falling Clown (1982) stars Emmett Kelley as Peters's client and Alfred Hitchcock as a murder suspect. His other critically acclaimed series chronicles the cases of Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov. Kaminsky's detailed studies of Russian police procedure combined with aspects of life in Russia have earned the Series an Edgar nomination for Black Knight in Red Square (1984) and the 1989 Edgar Award for A Cold Red Sunrise (1988). Stuart Kaminsky was born in Chicago in 1934 and died in 2009. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Dog Who Bit a Policeman
- Original publication date
- 1998-07
- People/Characters
- Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov (Inspector); Igor Yaklovev (corrupt Director of Moscow Police); Sasha Tkach (police officer); Elena Timofeyeva (police officer); Emil Karpo (Detective)
- Important places
- Moscow, Russia; Marseilles, France
- Epigraph
- If any one of us knew of a proposed political murder, would he, in view of all the consequences, give the information, or would he stay at home and await events? Opinions may differ on this point. The answer to the question w... (show all)ill tell us clearly whether we are to separate, or to remain together...
--Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed - Dedication
- My continued thanks to Jeff Rice for his enthusiastic and excellent research on Russia and its people.
- First words
- 'Les chiens, dogs.' said the oldest man sitting at the booth in the corner of the restaurant. (prologue)
The young man and woman sat eating porterhouse steaks at a table in the restaurant of the Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel and Business Center at Bereszhkovskaya Naberezhnaya 2. (chapter 1) - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They stood for almost forty minutes, when the rain suddenly stopped.
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