This book can be read as a standalone or as Book 10 in the Inspector Morose Series. After saving British democracy and helping to establish the new Republic of England and Wales, Morose and Dora are rewarded with a free trip on the luxurious, newly privatised Trans-Siberian Express from Berlin to Beijing via Moscow. On board they meet a notoriously evil Russian oligarch who is murdered in highly suspicious circumstances. Ex-Polizeikommissar...