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THE RUSSIAN DETECTIVE - CAROL ADLAM GEBUNDEN

A stunning detective story from the winner of the World Illustration Award   ** OBSERVER
GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTH Pick for March**   'Could not be more rich or more beautiful if it
tried'  OBSERVER  In this stunning reimagining of a nineteenth-century Russian crime thriller
from the world of Dostoevsky  Carol Adlam presents Charlie Fox  stunt journalist  magician 
liar and thief  who reluctantly returns to her hometown of Nowheregrad to investigate the
murder of Elena Ruslanova  daughter of a fabulously wealthy glass manufacturer.  In Nowheregrad
Charlie finds herself caught up in a multi-layered story that is told through the richly varied
visual devices of the time. With the unwitting assistance of her lover  Netochka  Charlie
unravels the mystery of the Bobrov family  only to face the truth about herself.  Exquisitely
drawn and compellingly told  Adlam's complex  elegant narrative brings to life the lost
legacies of early crime fiction and the first women journalists and detectives.   **A GUARDIAN
GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR**

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