The Corsican Dove

Private Eye Ramone Ramone is approached one night by a mysterious woman offering him $10,000 to find a rare book. It seems her son has joined a cult and offered its guru a family heirloom: an original edition of The Corsican Dove. After accepting the case, Ramone discovers that the book is worth less than a carton of cigarettes. With the murders of five interested parties and death threats received by Ramone and his drug-dealing partner, he learns that there are some heavy hitters out there including his own clients who have no intention of letting Ramone get his hands on The Corsican Dove. How can a $7.00 book be worth dying for?

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Ramone Ramone wasn’t having a good day, but then, that was nothing new. Pouring himself a drink and lighting another cigarette, he takes a moment to review the case: A half-baked artist has an apartment full of slashed paintings, another suit took a wrong turn out of a high window, and his favorite pawn shop isn’t as safe as it used to be. To make things worse, his best hope to unravel things is a space-cadet hippy that never left the seventies and a dead cat with a diamond collar. With one foot on the pavement and the other in a glass of whiskey, Ramone is left to tie it all together. At least he has his girlfriend Li, and Jerome, the best partner the sixth grade ever produced. Maybe the life of a private eye isn’t so bad after all – but what does any of this have to do with a duck?

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"Andrey Biely completed The Silver Dove in 1909, four years after the shattering days of the Russian revolution of 1905. Together with St. Petersburg, this book, into which he poured his effort to give Russian literature a new vocabulary, earned him a reputation of being a Russian James Joyce. In his preface, Harrison Salisbury calls The Silver Dove "a psychic vision of Russia's future," for in its pages Biely created a prophetic allegory of the tragedy which was waiting in the wings for Russia. The Silver Dove is the story of a writer's involvement with a peasant woman who stands under the strange influence of Kudeyarov, a local carpenter and head of a secret sect "The Doves." After many bizarre occurrences, the writer breaks with the carpenter's magical influence and the carpenter arranges for the writer to be murdered. As an allegory, each of its characters stands for one of the major forces which were to shape the fate of Russia in the coming sixty years. The novel has a rich, complex texture, a rhythmical style and many interwoven themes (East vs. West) which add to its contemporary interest. There are superb lyrical descriptions of the countryside as well as of magical and psychic phenomena, but also realistic and ironic comments on characters drawn from various strata of society. None of Biely's prose or novels has been republished in the Soviet Union since 1934."