The third Oxby mystery pits the Scotland Yard detective against killers in pursuit of a priceless Faberge egg that vanished at the onset of the Russian Revolution.

A world-renowned art collector challenges Jack Oxby to locate the mysterious Faberge Imperial egg that the monk Grigori Rasputin had commissioned as a gift for the Tsarina Alexandra but which mysteriously disappeared the night of his assassination. Carrying out an investigation from England to New York and on to St. Petersburg, Oxby discovers the history of the "objet d'art" that's been shrouded in almost a century of scandal, betrayal, and murder.