He startled critics, readers and the book industry in 1981 with a novel set in the Soviet Union that had a flawed detective ...

Popular novelist Martin Cruz Smith engaged readers for decades with "Gorky Park" and other thrillers featuring Moscow ...

Gorky Park’ author Martin Cruz Smith dies at 82 - Mystery novelist Martin Cruz Smith, known for such Arkady Renko thrillers ...

My longevity is linked to Arkady’s." Martin Cruz Smith's final novel, Hotel Ukraine, published just this week, brings to a ...

Martin Cruz Smith gave us thrillers with soul and silence that screamed. His final chapter arrives, but the echoes of his ...

Smith died on Friday "surrounded by those he loved," according to his publisher, Simon & Schuster. Further details were not ...

Martin Cruz Smith, the best-selling mystery novelist who engaged readers for decades with “Gorky Park” and other thrillers ...

Martin Cruz Smith, the American novelist, who has died aged 82, was the author of the international bestseller Gorky Park ...

Martin Cruz Smith, author of such bestsellers as "Gorky Park" and "Polar Star," died on July 11, 2025, at age 82. In this ...

The discovery of three faceless bodies in Moscow's Gorky Park puts the investigating police officer (William Hurt) on a bloody trail of intrigue, corruption and murder. Hurt, Brian Dennehy and Lee ...

In recent years, however, Gorky Park has fallen into disarray, and indeed there are no pleasant parks in central Moscow. ... the novel written by the American author Martin Cruz Smith in 1981.

U.S. author Martin Cruz Smith has just finished writing the latest in a series of novels about Moscow Detective Arkady Renko, who was played by William Hurt in the 1983 film version of "Gorky Park." ...