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Boris Akunin
THE LATEST NOVEL IN BORIS AKUNIN’S ERAST FANDORIN MYSTERIES An action-packed mystery in which the stakes are far higher than ever before: can Fandorin capture a renowned criminal, save the…
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From Boris Akunin, the writer who invented the popular Russian crime novel, a gripping tale of a secret suicide society in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring a naive young protagonist and the…
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Akunin goes noir as Fandorin meets bandits!
Canine conspiracies, spurned lovers, murderous greed, jealousy, politics, power and knitting: Pelagia and the White Bulldog marks the beginning of an addictively entertaining new crime series from the internationally bestselling…
‘Think Tolstoy writing James Bond with the logical rigour of Sherlock Holmes. A hoot’ Guardian
The third installment of the Sister Pelagia series pleases lovers of mysteries, as well as fans of classic Russian literature ( USA Today ).
The book that brought Akunin to bestseller status in Russia, this collection features two new adventures for Akunins dashing sleuth, Erast Fandorin.
Sister Pelagia, bespectacled, freckled, woefully clumsy and possessed of a not very nunnish aptitude for solving crimes, returns in a tale of monastic intrigue, murder and adventure.
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The next caper in the Sister Pelagia mystery from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.
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The third Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.
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Erast Fandorin returns in another thrilling Russian crime caper, from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.
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.
From the writer who invented the popular Russian crime novel, Boris Akunin, a gripping tale of political subterfuge and murder in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring the inimitable hero Erast Fandorin
From Russia’s bestselling and most celebrated crime fiction writer, Boris Akunin, The Coronation casts Fandorin in a swashbuckling tale of abduction and intrigue, set during the build-up to the coronation…
To Kill a Serpent in the Shell dramatizes the final year of Tsarevna Sofia’s regency, interrogating Russia’s history while subtly confronting the Russia of today. The play, both a riddle…
This follow-up to the first book in Akunin’s Pelagia trilogy, Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog, is a mesmerizing–and frightening–foray into Zavolzhsk’s spiritual underworld.
Pelagia’s family likeness to Father Brown and Miss Marple is marked, and reading about her supplies a similarly decorous pleasure.-The Literary Review
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Fandorin returns in a swashbuckling tale of abduction and intrigue, set during the build-up to the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II.
Can Fandorin infiltrate a secret society to save Moscow’s youth? A dark and decadent detective story from the master of Russian crime fiction.
Erast Fandorin - ‘A popular hero to equal Sherlock Holmes and James Bond’ (The Times)‘ - returns in the penultimate installment of the hugely popular historical mystery series.
The daring Russian sleuth Erast Fandorin takes on two cunning adversaries. From the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.
Dashing hero Erast Fandorin returns for another intriguing Russian crime caper, from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN.
Russia, 1891. The new governor-general of Siberia has been secreted away on a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow. A blizzard rages outside as a mustachioed official climbs aboard near…
The first new Fandorin mystery available to an American audience in a decade, The State Counsellor tests the handsome diplomat-detective’s guile and integrity like never before.
Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow with three of his children for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, who is fated to become the last Emperor of Russia. During…
Diana Stolz
Die Untersuchung stellt die zwei miteinander nicht eng verwandten Sprachen Spanisch und Russisch gegenuber. Es wird zwei grossen Fragestellungen nachgegangen: Welche AEhnlichkeiten semantischer Art koennen im Konjunktivgebrauch festgestellt werden? Welche…
