Description

Ned Morton wants to end his life of crime with one last triumph. An English member of a group of leading European criminals, he seeks a gold statue. It depicts the Madonna at life size and is called Fecioara din Insula Grotelor. His sole lead is a woman held in prison in Bucharest. He plans to free her, but strange events lead him to release Melania Lupu instead. Major Cristescu had at last put her behind bars.

Melania uses her acting skills to join Morton's quest. She even persuades him that her cat, Mirciulică, must come along. This crime novel by Rodica Ojog-Brașoveanu belongs to the Melania Lupu series. It is for readers of crime and mystery fiction.

Ojog-Brașoveanu was a Romanian crime writer, born in Bucharest in 1939. She died in 2002. She attended Maison de Francais and then Domnita Ileana school. Political expulsion cut short her law studies in Bucharest in 1956. She spent a year doing unskilled work at the Galenica drug factory. She then resumed her studies in Iași and became a lawyer. Her writing debut came with a television script in 1969. Her husband, actor Cosma Brasoveanu, urged her to write her first crime novel. She published Moartea semneaza indescifrabil in 1971. After seven years in law, she left to write full-time. By 1999, she had published 35 novels, most of them crime stories. Her work also included historical novels and one science fiction novel.