A world-famous Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific...
The Master and Margarita
A classic of Stalin-era Russian literature. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow. His...
The Case of the General’s Thumb
By the author of Death and the Penguin, this 1999 novel opens in Kiev with the puzzling death of a...
The Late Mattia Pascal
Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters and...
Equal Danger
District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these...
The Council of Egypt
The consequences of reform gone awry. Sciascia, author of detective stories that portray the...
Death and the Penguin
No one wants to publish Viktor's short stories, but one day he gets a call from a newspaper asking...