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The
Death of Achilles
Orion
hbk £12.99 August 2005
The
fourth bestselling novel in the Erast Fandorin series.
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intrigue, professional rivalry, the criminal underworld of nineteenth-century
Moscow, and an irresistible femme fatale: if Erast Fandorin was hoping for a
quiet homecoming, he is about to be disappointed.
Erast Fandorin returns to
Moscow after an absence of six years, only to find himself instantly embroiled
in court politics and scandal. His old friend General Sobolev - the famous
'Russian Achilles' - has been found dead in a hotel room, and Fandorin suspects
foul play.
Using
his now-famous powers of detection - powers that belie his twenty-six years -
Fandorin embarks on an investigation, during which the political and the
personal may become dangerously blurred. With the assistance of some formidable
martial arts skills, acquired whilst Fandorin was in Japan, our eccentric and
ingenious hero must endeavour to discover not so much whodunit, as why
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Turkish
Gambit
Orion
hbk £12.99
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The
Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture, and Erast Fandorin, broken-hearted
and disillusioned, has gone to the front in an attempt to forget his sorrows.
Captured by the Turks, he wins his freedom in a game of backgammon, before
finding himself the unlikely rescuer of Varvara Suvorova - a 'progressive'
Russian woman trying to make her way to the Russian headquarters to join her
fiancé.
Fandorin's efforts to steer clear of affairs of state are
thwarted when a traitor is discovered within the Russian camp. Within days,
Varvara's fiancé has been accused of treason, a Turkish victory looms on the
horizon, and there are rumours that one of Lady Astair's Azazel orphans may be
making his own bid for power.
Our reluctant gentleman sleuth will need to
resurrect all of his dormant powers of detection if he is to unmask the traitor,
help the Russians to victory and smooth the path of young love in the third
sparkling page-turner from Boris Akunin.
Murder on the
Leviathan
Orion pbk
£6.99
The
second Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold
Dagger.
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'Akunin
is an outstanding novelist...Fandorin is a beautifully drawn character who more
than lives up to comparisons with Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes...The
characters are delightful and you can imagine them in a Woody Allen version of
an Agatha Christie novel...Akunin's work is gloriously tongue-in-cheek but
seriously edge-of-your-seat at the same time' Daily Express
On 15th March
1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his
Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the
victim's hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest
steamship, as the murderer is one of the 142 first class passengers.
Commissioner Gauche of the French police has narrowed down the suspects
to ten, and they are forced to eat together at every meal time in the ship's
Windsor Suite until 'the Crime of the Century' is solved. But is the murderer
really at the table, and can Erast Fandorin discover his or her identity before
Gauche? As more passengers are murdered and the Leviathan heads towards
Calcutta, Fandorin needs all his investigative skills to find the
truth.
The Winter
Queen
Orion pbk
£6.99
'An
absolute delight. Think Tolstoy writing James Bond with the logical rigour of
Sherlock Holmes. A hoot' Guardian
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This
is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves
murders and mysteries in Tsarist Russia.
Moscow 1876. A young law student
commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no
ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist
and has left a considerable fortune.
Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new
recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department, is assigned to the case.
Brilliant, young, and sophisticated, Fandorin embarks on an investigation that
will take him from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy backstreets of
London in his hunt for the conspirators behind this mysterious
death.
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