Murder on the Leviathan
Erast Fandorin 3
$34.19
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2004
Summary
‘Akunin is an outstanding novelist…Fandorin is a beautifully drawn character who more than lives up to comparisons with Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes…The characters are delightful and you can imagine them in a Woody Allen version of an Agatha Christie novel…Akunin’s work is gloriously tongue-in-cheek but seriously edge-of-your-seat at the same time’ Daily Express
On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together wit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753818435 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753818434 |
| Author: | Boris Akunin |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2004 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Erast Fandorin Mysteries |
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Critics Review
‘terrific and hugely diverting.’
‘terrific and hugely diverting.’ - SUNDAY TIMES (24.10.04) ‘Anyone with a taste for 19th-century yarns will also love Boris Akunin’s LEVIATAHN, a Russian homage to Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, carried off with a wit and brio that lift it way beyond mere pastiche.’ - SUNDAY TIMES (24.10.04) Francis Wheen (A Little Night Reading) ‘a delectable mystery.’ GOOD BOOK GUIDE (1.11.04) ‘It takes love and wit to revive the corpse of the country-house murder; Akunin has both…an amusing voyage.’ GUARDIAN (6.11.04) ‘Splendidly smart and funny, this is half pastiche, half reinvention, and wholly entertaining.’ - Catherine Shoard EVENING STANDARD (8.11.04) ‘a quirky mix: a whodunit that has fun with all the cliches while taking the genre to places it hasn’t been before…this is a cracking read.’ - Mary Crockett THE SCOTSMAN (18.12.04) ‘Akunin’s novel is a tribute to the classic genre without being pure pastiche and succeeds in being an entertaining and highly enjoyable read. Recommended.’ - Alan Perry SHERLOCK (Issue 64)
About The Author
Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who worked as a translator before writing fiction. He has been compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone. He lives in Moscow.
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