LEVIATHAN

Akunin, Boris (Grigory Chkhartishvili)

ISBN 10: 0297645528 / ISBN 13: 9780297645528

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004

About this Item

First UK edition, first prnt. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. Signed by Akunin on the title page. One in Akunin's Erast Fandorin series. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Seller Inventory # 60642

Bibliographic Details

Title: LEVIATHAN

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcovers

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest steamship, as the murderer is one of the 142 First Class passengers. Commissioner Gauche of the French police has narrowed down the suspects to ten, and they are forced to eat together at every meal time in the ship's Windsor Suite until 'the Crime of the Century' is solved. But is the murderer really seated around the table, and can Erast Fandorin discover his or her identity before Gauche? As more passengers are murdered and Leviathan heads towards Calcutta, Fandorin needs all his investigative skills to find the truth. Boris Akunin's latest page-turner again transports the reader back to the late nineteenth century. In LEVIATHAN he pays homage to Agatha Christie with a cast of characters and a plot which grips you from the first page.

About the Author:

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili. He worked as a translator before writing fiction. He has been compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over ten million copies in Russia alone. He lives in Moscow.