By Boris Akunin
In Special Assignments, Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia’s suavest sleuth, faces ambitious new foes: One steals outrageous sums of cash, the opposite takes lives. “The Jack of Spades” is a civilized swindler who has conned millions of rubles from Moscow’s residents–including Fandorin’s personal boss, Prince Dolgorukoi. To capture him, Fandorin and his new assistant, timid younger policeman Anisii Tulipov, needs to don virtually as many disguises because the grifter does himself. “The Decorator” is a distinct case altogether: A savage serial killer who believes he “cleans” the ladies he mutilates and takes his orders from on excessive, he needs to be given Fandorin’s such a lot severe attentions.
Peopled through a wealthy forged of eccentric characters, and with plots which are as marvelous as they're artistic, Special Assignments will satisfaction Akunin’s many enthusiasts, whereas not easy the gentleman sleuth’s really good powers of detection.
Praise from England:
“Boris Akunin’s wit and invention are a resource of continuous wonder.”
–Evening Standard
“[Fandorin is] a debonair blend of Sherlock Holmes, D’Artagnan and many of the soulful heroes of Russian literature. . . . This pair of completely balanced tales allow the nature of Fandorin to grow.”
–The Sunday Telegraph
“Agatha Christie meets James Bond: [Akunin’s] plots are complex and tantalizing. . . . [These tales] are unputdownable and nice fun.”
–Sunday Express
“The beguiling, super-brainy, horny, unpredictable Fandorin is a construction like no different in crime fiction.”
–The Times
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How many times do I have to tell you! ' All righ', come,' the servant invited him, and moved aside to let him through. Tulipov found himself in a spacious hallway. He looked around curiously and for a moment was disappointed: there was no stuffed bear with a silver tray for calling cards, and how could a gentleman's apartment not have a stuffed bear? Or did no one come calling on the Deputy for Special Assignments? But even though there was no bear to be seen, the hallway was furnished very nicely indeed, and there was a glass cupboard in the corner with some peculiar kind of armour, all made out of little metal plates, with a complicated monogram on the chest and a helmet with horns like a beetle's.
He had picked Mimi up the previous spring in Kishinev, where she was passing herself off as an Ethiopian dancer in a variety show and was wildly popular with the local fast livers. She had blackened her skin, dyed and frizzed her hair, and she leapt around the stage wearing nothing but garlands of flowers, with bracelets on her arms and legs. The Kishinevians took her for an absolutely genuine Negress. That is, at first they had had their doubts, but a visiting Neapolitan merchant who had been to Abyssinia had confirmed that Mamselle Zemchandra really did speak Ethiopian, and so all doubts had been dispelled.
A year earlier, when Anisii had become a police agent, things had been much better: a salary of eighteen roubles, plus extra pay for overtime and for night work, and occasionally they might even throw in some travel expenses. Sometimes it all mounted up to as much as thirty-five roubles a month. But the unfortunate Tulipov hadn't been able to hold on to his fine, lucrative job. Lieutenant-Colonel Sverchinsky himself had characterised him as a hopeless agent and in general a ditherer. ). And then something even worse had happened: Anisii had let a dangerous female revolutionary escape.