A Gentle Axe Paul Waters For several minutes he stood

For several minutes he stood speechless

her husband

where everyone has an agenda

and all she has to do is wait

And just who is the sinister Collector who seems to be shadowing Nick

A Gentle Axe Paul Waters For several minutes he stoodFresh off the case of a deranged student who murdered his landlady, noted police investigator Porfiry Petrovich barely takes a breath before a bizarre and very grisly double murder lands him back on the streets of the tsarist St. Petersburg he knows all too well. The sardonic sleuth follows a trail from the drinking dens of the Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society a hunt that leads him to a conclusion even he will find