Swan carefully intertwines the search for the murderer and the search for the egg so that the novel's numerous coincidences appear believable."-PW. New York City police detective Alex Tobias is investigating Akimov's murder when a meeting with Oxby provokes him to join the dangerous, cross-continental search for the precious artifact. Jack Oxby takes a leave from Scotland Yard to accept a commission from the Forbes family to determine if Rasputin's Imperial egg still exists and, if so, to find it. At the opening of a new showroom, Carson is visited by Sasha Akimov, an old family friend, who tells Carson how his father was cheated out of the egg.
citizen, the owner of several car dealerships. More than 30 years later, Vasily's son Mikhail, now known as Mike Carson, has become a U.S. In 1963, Vasily Karsalov loses the egg in a rigged poker game.
"On the night of his murder in 1916, Grigori Rasputin picks up a Faberge Imperial Easter egg he'd commissioned as a gift for Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. edition, with complete number line beginning with 1.
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