BORIS AKUNIN

Two new adventures for Boris Akunin 's well-loved, inimitable hero in which Erast Fandorin faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully maintained calm of Moscow in 1886, and the other a brutal serial killer, driven by an insane, mania...

Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow for the coronation, with three of his children. During an afternoon stroll, daughter Xenia is dragged away by bandits, only to be rescued by an elegant gentleman and his oriental sidekick. The passing heroes introduce themselves as Fandorin and Masa, but panic ensues when they realise that four-...

In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertinent manservant Masa are staying, Fandorin?s old war-hero friend General Michel Sobolev ( Achilles ...

This dryly humorous historical mystery was a bestseller in Russia. Lord Littleby and nine members of his Parisian household were brutally murdered and Littleby's gold image of Shiva stolen. The killer's trail leads over the water to the posh British liner Leviathan. Commissioner Gustave Gauche and the Russian diplomat Erast P. Fandorin vie to be...

Boris Akunin, Andrew Bromfield

El gambit és una jugada d'escacs en la qual se sacrifica un peó o una altra peça a l'adversari per aconseguir una superioritat estratègica. Aquesta és la metàfora que definiex aquesta magnífica història d'espionatge, amb la guerra russoturca als Balcans c

Un rumor desconcertant recorre els passadissos de lHotel Dusseaux, travessa les parets del recinte i sescampa per tot Moscou: han trobat mort el general Blanc. Mentre la tràgica notícia passeja per les grans avingudes i pels carrers més insignificants de la ciutat, Erast Fandorin, lenginyós investigador rus, apareix en escena després duna m...