Carrie.
Re your question below:
> . . . I imagine
> if a Russian police inspector wrote about his
real
> life experiences
> investigating murders in Moscow in the '80s, part
of
> me would be skeptical
> if it was nothing like "Gorky Park". Speaking
of,
> does anybody know of
> Russian crime novels, by Russians, that
are
> available in English?
There're a number of Russian-written police procedurals. One
of the first to be published in the US (predating both Cruz
Smith and Kaminsky by several years) was Julian Semyonov's
PETROVKA 38. Petrovka 38 is, if memory serves, the address of
Moscow police HQ, roughly the equivalent of Scotland Yard in
London, Quai d'Orfevres in Paris, or 1 Police Plaza in NYC.
Semyonov has since become a moving force in the International
Assn of Crime Writers.
Fridrick Neznansky (a former Soviet police officer) and
Edward Topol (a former Soviet journalist) collaborated on two
Moscow-set police novels, DEADLY GAMES and RED SQUARE (not to
be confused with Cruz Smith's similarly titled novel).
Neznansky has written at least one solo cop novel, THE BODY
IN SOKOLNIKI PARK. Topol has also written at least one cop
novel on his own, RED SNOW.
JIM DOHERTY
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