Red Chameleon

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The violent and inexplicable murder of an old man in his bathtub and the theft of a worthless candlestick send Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov on a hunt into the past . . .A ring of car thieves with a taste for expensive vehicles is at large in Moscows streets . . .High above the gray city a sniper is taking aim at police officers and the obsessed detective Emil Karpo takes the assignment to heart . . ."Kaminsky works up plenty of sweaty-palmed suspense of the best sort built out of equal parts of likeable characters and believable dangers."Washington Post Book World