The Winter Queen: An Erast Fandorin Mystery 1 (Erast Fandorin Mysteries)

by Boris Akunin

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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. After all, it's difficult to keep your mind on a case when the new Dostoyevsky novel has just hit the shops....Read more
  • ISBN10 0297829742
  • ISBN13 9780297829744
  • Publish Date 1 May 2003
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 17 July 2007
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English