The death of Achilles
2005, First Edition. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #359994
ISBN: 0297645536
Physical description: 330 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: 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 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 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 it was in Wanda's bed that the general secretly breathed his last. Subjects: Fandorin, Erast (Fictitious character) ; Fiction. Moscow (Russia) History 19th century ; Fiction. Genre: Fiction. Language: English.
Price: €21.95