"Red Chameleon: An Inspector Rostnikov Mystery, By Stuart M. Kaminsky, Narrated by Mark Hammer, Copyrith 1985 by Stuart M. Kaminsky, P 1992 by Recorded Books, Inc., Unabridged, 92107 (6 cassettes/8.75 hours)" "I will not forget,' said Rostnikov to the dead man, placing his head gently on the steps. In the rear of the dark theater a door opened. A square of light showed two figures who had apparently been listening. One of the shadows turned for an instant and faced Rostnikov. It may have been a trick of the distance or the light or his state of mind, but Rostnikov thought the hands of the figure came together in a slow mockery of applause. Then the door closed, and Rostnikov was alone."---from Red Chameleon "Porfiry Rostnikov couldn't let it die. It wasn't just pity that he felt,...two waifs huddled together in a dark, featureless Moscow apartment---a young, beseeching boy and his limping older sister---and just beyond their gaze, behind a closed bathroom door, an irreversible, unspeakable horror. There hadn't been much to go on at first---a bloody corpse, a missing brass candlestick, and an old photograph taken before the Revolution---five men in peasant dress, one of them grinning challengingly at the camera. But like his namesake, the persevering Inspector Rostnikov of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, whose imperturable interrogation of Roskolnikov gave him plenty of reason to sweat, Porfiry couldn't just give a thing up-especially if he was ordered to do so." "Kaminsky works up plenty of sweaty-palmed suspense of the best sort, built out of equal parts of likeable characters and believable dangers."---The Washington Post Book World "Rostinikov is an exceptionally humane man and a man of many facets. He converses knowledgeably about Gogol, Pushkin and Tolstoy, is a champion weightlifter and enjoys reading Ed McBain's 87the Precinct novels."---Chicago Tribune (from back case of cover)