The Diamond Chariot. The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin
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An epic finale to the series, featuring Fandorin's battle against Ninjas and terrorists aboard the Trans-Siberian Express!
Boris Akunin Boeken
20 mei 1956
Deze auteur brengt het tsaristische Rusland meesterlijk tot leven door middel van meeslepende misdaadverhalen. Zijn werken worden geprezen om hun ingewikkelde plots en de creatie van memorabele personages zoals Erast Fandorin. De auteur combineert vakkundig historische details met conventies van het detectieve genre, en biedt lezers een meeslepende reis naar een vervlogen tijdperk. Zijn onderscheidende stem en narratieve flair maken zijn bijdragen aan de hedendaagse literatuur significant en boeiend.
Sister Pelagia, a clumsy and unconventional nun, returns in a story filled with monastic intrigue, murder, and adventure as she tackles crime-solving.
The Diamond Chariot. Die Diamantene Kutsche, englische Ausgabe
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The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the martial arts education that came in so handy later! He investigates the death of a Russian ship captain, fights for a woman, exposes double agents in the Japanese police, fights against, and then with the ninjas, and becomes embroiled in a suitably shocking finale.
Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her.
Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero 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. The other is a brutal serial killer, driven by an insane, maniacal obsession, who strikes terror into the heart of the Moscow slums in 1889 - and who may have more in common with London's own Jack the Ripper than simply a taste for women of easy virtue.
The death of Achilles
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Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow, and he just can't seem to keep out of trouble... The fourth novel in the bestselling crime series from the author of THE WINTER QUEEN. 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...
Sixth mystery adventure in the Fandorin series
Murder on the Leviathan
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Investigating the murder of an English aristocrat whose children and servants were found dead nearby of morphine overdoses, police commissioner Gauche teams up with Erast Fandorin to identify a killer on board a luxury cruise ship.
Fandorin returns in a swashbuckling tale of abduction and intrigue, set during the build-up to the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II.
Black City
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THE LATEST NOVEL IN BORIS AKUNIN'S ERAST FANDORIN MYSTERIESAn action-packed mystery in which the stakes are far higher than ever before: can Fandorin capture a renowned criminal, save the Russian Empire and avoid a global war?
