Medvedev, Matvei Naumovich Solov´ev, Sergei	Po nevidimym sledam. L., Lenizdat, 1971. 309 p.	€40

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8 vo, decorative publisher´s covers in blue, white and red. Autographed by Sergei Solov´ev to co-author´s relatives who emigrated to Germany. Second, revised and supplemented edition. Both editions became bestsellers in the USSR at the time of publication and were sold out overnight. Collection of essays by former Soviet police officer and later Leningrad state prosecutor Sergei Solov´ev (sovetnik iustitsii 3 klassa) and Soviet Jewish journalist with close ties to high ranking officers in Leningrad police HQ and Leningrad criminal police. Essays deal with activities of Criminal Police investigators in Leningrad and Leningrad oblast. Two essays in this book, in all the probability based on WW II documents in the archives of Leningrad City Court, dealing with police work in Leningrad during the Siege and KGB counterintelligence unit operations hunting Russian collaborators in 1960s.