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Zugzwang

St. Petersburg, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid, and, under its surface of frosty glamour, seething with plots and secret allegiances. On a blustery March day, O. V. Gulko, a respected newspaper editor, is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days later Dr. Otto Spethmann, the famous psychoanalyst, receives a visit from the police. There has been another murder in the city and somehow he is implicated. He is mystified - and deeply worried, as much for his young, spirited daughter as for himself." "Meanwhile, he is preoccupied by two new patients: Anna Petrovna, the society beauty plagued by nightmares with whom he is steadily and inappropriately falling in love, and the brilliant but fragile chess genius, Avrom Rozental, who, on the verge of complete breakdown, must now play in the most important tournament of his life." "With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethman broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the many forces - political, historical, sexual - that are holding him in their grasp.

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  • "St. Petersburg, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid, and, under its surface of frosty glamour, seething with plots and secret allegiances. On a blustery March day, O. V. Gulko, a respected newspaper editor, is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days later Dr. Otto Spethmann, the famous psychoanalyst, receives a visit from the police. There has been another murder in the city and somehow he is implicated. He is mystified - and deeply worried, as much for his young, spirited daughter as for himself." "Meanwhile, he is preoccupied by two new patients: Anna Petrovna, the society beauty plagued by nightmares with whom he is steadily and inappropriately falling in love, and the brilliant but fragile chess genius, Avrom Rozental, who, on the verge of complete breakdown, must now play in the most important tournament of his life." "With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethman broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the many forces - political, historical, sexual - that are holding him in their grasp."@en
  • "St Petersburg, 1914. On a blustery April day O.V. Gulko, a respected newspaper editor, is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days later Dr Otto Spethmann, famous psychoanalyst, receives a visit from the police. There has been another murder in the city and somehow he is implicated."@en
  • "A respected St. Petersburg newspaper editor is killed in front of a crowd and Dr. Otto Spethmann a psychoanalysis is somehow implicated."@en
  • "Literary suspense in the tradition of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ... A tale of murder, chess, and psychoanalysis set in 1914 St. Petersburg. "Zugzwang" is a chess term used to describe a position in which a player is reduced to a state of utter helplessness; obligated to make a move, but in a way that only worsens his position. The year is 1914, and St. Petersburg is playing host to an international chess tournament that has captivated the city's residents, including the famous psychoanalyst Otto Spethmann. When the editor of a liberal newspaper is assassinated, Spethmann is unwittingly caught up in the investigation. But he soon finds that the murder is part of a much larger conspiracy--one that reaches into the heart of the Russian political establishment."@en

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  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"

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  • "Zugzwang"

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