Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Senka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ranks, uncovering a stash of precious metal, and gradually capturing the heart of his beloved…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s. This is the story of Fandorin's arrival and life in Yokohama, his first meeting with Masa and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow for the coronation, with three of his children. During an afternoon stroll, daughter Xenia is dragged away by bandits, only to be rescued by an elegant gentleman and his oriental sidekick. The passing heroes introduce themselves as Fandorin and Masa, but panic ensues when they realise that four-year old Mikhail has been snatched in the confusion.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: There's been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon — that the victims are linked by a secret society, the Lovers of Death. But Zhemailo is not the only investigator hot on the heels of these disciples of the occult. Little do they realise that the latest…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: General Khrapov, newly appointed Governor-General of Siberia and soon-to-be Minister of the Interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, leaves a knife thrust up to the hilt in his victim's chest and escapes through the window of the carriage. Can Fandorin escape suspicion? A battle of wills and ideals,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 090 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 411) Аннотация: The ship carrying the devout to Jerusalem has run into rough waters, in this third outing for Sister Pelagia. Onboard is Manuila, controversial leader of the Foundlings, a sect that worships him as the Messiah. But soon the polarizing leader is no longer a passenger or a prophet but a corpse, beaten to death by someone almost supernaturally strong. But not everything is as it seems, and soon the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully maintained calm of Moscow in 1886, and the other a brutal serial killer, driven by an insane, maniacal obsession, who strikes terror into the heart of the Moscow slums in 1889 — and who may have more…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Fandorin ermittelt in der Moskauer Unterwelt Moskau 1900: Die größten Schurken buhlen um die Gunst der bezaubernden Geliebten des Gaunerfürsten — sie gilt als die schönste Frau der Stadt. Doch wen sie erhört, der stirbt. Auch Fandorin ist die geheimnisvolle Schöne nicht gleichgültig, und das heißt, daß er mit seinem Leben spielt. Ein Roman aus dem…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: 1905: Rußland steht im Krieg mit Japan. Als Mitarbeiter des Verkehrsministeriums hat Fandorin den Auftrag, die Militärtransporte auf der Transsibirischen Eisenbahnabzusichern. Aber wer hat Chancen gegen einen japanischen Meisterspion? Fandorins Erlebnisse als Vizekonsul in Japan 1878 erweisen sich auf geheimnisvolle Weise mit diesem Fall verwoben. Boris Akunin genießt in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, boards the train at Klin, where it has been delayed by snowdrifts on the line. He leaves a knife bearing the initials «CG» (Combat Group) thrust up to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 386 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 273) Аннотация: The Russian creator of the czarist master detective Erast Fandorin here introduces another irresistible sleuth in the form of an orthodox nun in a remote province of late 19th-century Russia. Bishop Mitrofanii has a family crisis on his hands: one of his great aunt's rare white bulldogs has been poisoned on her estate, probably as an attack on the old woman. With a fistful of erratic family…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Just as the dust from the case of the white Bulldog begins to settle in the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk, its sleepy rural existence is shaken up by the arrival of a desperately frightened monk who seeks the help of the bishop, Mitrofanii...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In the dying days of the nineteenth century, the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a hidden agenda and a dangerously persuasive manner. Meanwhile, in the nearby country estate of Drozdovka, one of the prized white Bulldogs — prized because of its one brown ear, and its propensity to drool —…