Two novella-length cases for Moscow investigator Erast Petrovich
Fandorin, the Governor-General's deputy for special assignments
(Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog, 2007, etc.).The first
novella, "The Jack of Spades," brings a world-class con man to
Moscow. A master of disguise calling himself Momos has swindled the
Governor-General himself, Prince Vladimir Andreevich Dolgorukoi, in
a manner as ingenious as it is humiliating. Aided by pimply,
unpromising police courier Anisii Tulipov, Court Counselor Fandorin
takes the pursuit of Momos as his personal mission. He doesn't know
that Momos has developed an equally personal stake in fleecing
Fandorin, or that the battle of wits won't end when Momos and his
accomplice, the lovely actress Mimi, have been captured. By the
time of the second novella, "The Decorator," Tulipov has been
Fandorin's assistant for three years. Holy Week of 1889 brings
evidence that Jack the Ripper has left London after an eventful
autumn season to ply his trade in Moscow. Before Fandorin can bring
the shadowy killer to justice, he's notched even more Russian
victims than English, some of them disquietingly close to the Court
Counselor.The lighthearted opening tale is followed by a grisly
sequel whose mutilations, many of them described from both the
killer's and the investigator's viewpoints, give Patricia Cornwell
a run for her money, though without throwing any definitive light
on the real-life horrors that inspired them. (Kirkus Reviews)
Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different
adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise,
whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully
maintained calm of Moscow in 1886. The other is a brutal serial
killer, driven by an insane, maniacal obsession, who strikes terror
into the heart of the Moscow slums in 1889 - and who may have more
in common with London's own Jack the Ripper than simply a taste for
women of easy virtue.
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