What prompted the murder?; The Investigator's Story; Secret Investigation

Russian writer Alexander Andreyevich Shklyarevsky (1837-1883) belonged, according to V. V. Krestovsky, "to that working class of magazine literature that can boldly, in all fairness, be dubbed the literary convicts." Shklyarevsky was forced to struggle with poverty all his life. He taught for more than ten years, while simultaneously publishing articles in various newspapers and magazines. A man g...