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A Fandorin Mystery

The Death of Achilles, A Novel

The Death of Achilles, A Novel


by Boris Akunin | Andrew Bromfield

  • MYSTERY
  • 2006
  • PAPER

The fourth in the series starring Russian detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin, this time in Moscow on the trail of an assassin. (RUS291, $12.95)

Murder on the Leviathan

Murder on the Leviathan


by Boris Akunin | Andrew Bromfield

  • MYSTERY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

A mystery on the high seas starring the young detective Erast Fandorin, set in 1878. Second in Akunin's clever detective series. (RUS225, $14.00)

Special Assignments

Special Assignments


by Boris Akunin

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Peopled by a rich cast of eccentric characters, and with plots that are as surprising as they are inventive, "Special Assignments "will delight Akunin's many fans, while challenging the gentleman sleuth's brilliant powers of detection. (RUS371, $15.00)

The Turkish Gambit

The Turkish Gambit


by Andrew Bromfield | Boris Akunin

  • MYSTERY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

Detective Erast Fandorin is caught in Bulgaria in the middle of the brutal Russo-Turkish war in this thriller set in 1877. The third book in the series. (RUS263, $14.00)

The Winter Queen

The Winter Queen


by Boris Akunin | Andrew Bromfield

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 249 PAGES

Akunin sets a suspected murder among the glitterati of late 19th-century Moscow in this first book in the series of clever detective novels starring the rascal Erast Fandorin, wildly popular in Russia. The series continues with: The Turkish Gambit (RUS263), set during the 1877 Russo-Turkish War; Murder on the Leviathan (RUS225), an homage to Christie; and The Death of Achilles (RUS291), back in Moscow. Fandorin is deputy to the governor-general of czarist Moscow in Special Assignments (RUS371), facing a serial murder and a swindler. (RUS210, $15.00)

 

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