Buy this book on-line AKUNIN**, BORIS: : LEVIATHAN.**LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 2004. ISBN 0297645528.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published in Russia as Leviafan in 1998,by I. Zakharov Publishers,Moscow.This is the first English,UK 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edition (but the second title in the series to be released in English). Translated by Andrew Bromfield.] FINE-/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour pictorial illustrated upper panel,with red+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+foot of unfaded spine/ backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges minimally aged/toned,light thumbing to fore-edges but bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine /backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-236pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
Author's 3rd Erast Fandorin title/novel. See also rja24107,rja373410,rja534915, rja584515 and rja731817 respectively,for similar or other related UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn titles by this author.
Boris Akunin is a pseudonym of critic and essayist Grigory Chkhartshvili who published his first mysteries in 1998.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.It was only after the first books of the Fandorin series were published to critical acclaim that his true identity was admitted.
3rd title in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels with the 19th-century James Bond,Erast Fandorin. Akunin's specialty is historical mysteries set in Imperial Russia.
It takes love and wit to revive the corpse of the country-house murder; Akunin has both and his borrowings from Agatha Christie and Conan-Doyle have already earned him an 8 million strong readership in his native Russia.
The mysterious murder in 1870's Paris of an eccentric collector and his entire household yields a single clue that sends Commissioner Gauche,'Investigator for Especially Important Cases',on the maiden voyage of the Leviathan.Cooped up on board,the prime suspects exhibit all sorts of odd behaviour: drug-taking,paranoia,a refusal to admit to visiting Paris and wearing non-European clothes are enough to rouse suspicion.Only one passenger,a stuttering Russian diplomat, Erast Fandorin,has an eye for a telling discrepancy.
Though the red herrings stink and the scenario is ridiculous,Akunin's affection for the genre's conventions and his elegant skits on national stereotypes and political rivalries make for an amusing voyage.
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