First Edition: Yes
First Printing/Impression: Yes
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Year Published: 2003
Price Clipped: No
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine & Protected
Synopsis:
This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in tsarist Russia. A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. Fandorin is put on the case to find out what drove him to it, a case that deepens as he discovers that the young man was the son of a rich and influential factory owner. The story is enhanced by its authentic backdrop of nineteenth-century Russia. Fandorin has been described as 'the James Bond of the 19th century' and Akunin has been compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Conan Doyle.
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