The Black City

The scene of the novel is laid in 1914 – just before the First World War. Erast Petrovich Fandorin is quietly taking a rest in a hotel suite in Yalta. Suddenly, the local town governor, general Dumbadze, simply rushes in with terrible news – witnesses saw an armed insurgent with a sniper rifle make his way to the garden of the tsar''s Livadia Palace. The tsar''s family is in deadly danger. Owing t...