Книга: Akunin Boris «The Death of Achilles»

The Death of Achilles

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In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertinent manservant Masa are staying, Fandorin's old war-hero friend General Michel Sobolev (Achilles to the crowd) has been found dead, felled in his armchair by an apparent heart attack. But Fandorin suspects an unnatural cause. His suspicions lead him to the boudoir of the beautiful singer - not exactly a courtesan known as Wanda. Apparently, in Wanda's bed, the general secretly breathed his last...

Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2006)

ISBN: 978-0-8129-6880-4

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