After the first racketing assault on his hearing, the cop at the Clarkstown, N.Y. police station held the telephone several inches from his ear. A Russianit sounded as if the caller were being flayed with a dull cabbage scraperwas on the other end of the line. The Russian was speaking from Reed Farm, a 70-acre estate operated by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, youngest daughter of famed Russian Author Leo Tolstoy. A woman, the Russian cried, had been stolen.
What woman? The woman, Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina! Not only stolenkidnaped! Listening, the cop gathered that...
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