商品簡介
In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he is staying with his loyal if impertinent manservant, Masa, 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 unnatural causes. His suspicions lead him to the boudoir of the beautiful singer - "not exactly a courtesan" - known as Wanda. Apparently, it was in Wanda's bed that the general secretly breathed his last ...
作者簡介
BORIS AKUNIN is the pen name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, who was born in the republic of Georgia in 1956. A philologist, critic, essayist, and translator of Japanese, he published his ?rst detective stories in 1998 and quickly became one of the most widely read authors in Russia. He has written ten Erast Fandorin novels to date, which have sold more than eight million copies in Russia and been translated into nearly two dozen languages. He lives in Moscow.