Pelagia And The Red Rooster
The Third Sister Pelagia Mystery
$68.18
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2010
Summary
Returning from the Synod in St Petersburg - and an official rebuke of her crime-fighting ways - Sister Pelagia finds herself aboard a steamer dodging pickpockets, zealots and a sinister man with a detachable eye.
But a brutal murder in the next cabin spells the end of her sleuthing retirement and the start of an investigation that will take her to the Holy Land and far beyond.Pelagia’s journey is peppered with tales of miracles and roosters and caves that act as por…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753826164 |
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| ISBN-10: | 075382616X |
| Author: | Boris Akunin |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2010 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 164mm x 200mm x 29mm |
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‘On paper Sister Pelagia might seem an eerily dull fictional detective, but in Boris Akunin’s hands she becomes as luminous as a Russian icon.’
a lively, engaging thriller whose subject matter allows Boris Akunin, a Russian scholar, to ask provocative questions about faith - OBSERVER
A clever, quirky novel where you never quite know what’s going to happen next - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY - Brandon RobshawOn paper Sister Pelagia might seem an eerily dull fictional detective, but in Boris Akunin’s hands she becomes as luminous as a Russian icon. - DAILY TELEGRAPH - Toby ClementsAbout The Author
Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili. He has been compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eighteen million copies in Russia alone. He lives in Moscow.
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