The Roman “Scotland-Yard” is a detective-Besseller of the American author Alex Grishen, who gained great success, including the English reading public: an important indicator, because the Scotland-Yard police is a company brand of England, its national brand. The novel tells about the several days of one of the most difficult periods of the English police – the investigation of the Jack of the Ripper, who remained unsolved. The case of the elusive brutal maleacian killer served as the basis for many research, disputes, and art works. Alex Grishen’s novel “Scotland -Yard” is a continuation of this topic.
The plot in the best traditions of the detective, the skill of Grisna-storytelling diphes the reader into the world of Victorian England, leads in dangerous streets, opium pubs and fashionable quarters. But the main action unfolds in the yard, as the inhabitants still call it. One of the police officers is brutally killed, and his comrades will have to reveal the murder in one day. Against the backdrop of the skepticism of the Londoners, who are big …
Author
Grishen Alex
Editor
Gornostaev Barbara
Translator
Sonkina D.
Publisher
Corpus, 2015
Series
Detective
Genre
Modern foreign prose
16+
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