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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Advance Review Copy. Crsip, clean and tight showing light shelf wear only. Sticker inside front cover.

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Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:9780753817599.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good paperback with clean pages. Little pen mark inside front cover, blurb page.

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Softcover. Zustand: Bon. Traces de pliures sur la couverture. Traces d'usure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Traces of creases on the cover. Signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are bumped, and page block is blemished. Pages are clear and unmarked throughout. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with plastic covered unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Board spine ends are slightly bumped. Page block is lightly tanned. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Hardcover - 1st edition. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. Original UK price label on the front of the jacket. Minor bumps to the hardcover spine ends. Pages are clean and sound, text clear. CM. Used.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. As new copy in a Brodart cover. (see picture) 236 pages.First UK Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition UK. UK first edition hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket, both in good condition. Light shelf and handling wear. including light creasing and tanning to DJ edges, small ticket residue to rear cover, tanning and foxing to pageblock. Spine is lightly cocked. Boards are in fine condition, pages tightly bound, content unmarked. CN. Used.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. [8], 223, [7] pages. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Tipping his hat to Agatha Christie, Akunin assembles a colorful cast of suspects--including a secretive Japanese doctor, a professor who specialized in rare Indian artifacts, a pregnant Swiss woman, and an English aristocrat with an appetite for collecting Asian treasures--all of whom are confined together until the crime is solved. As the Leviathan steams toward Calcutta, will Fandorin be able to out-investigate Gauche and discover who the killer is, even as the ship's passengers are murdered, one by one? Boris Akunin's latest page-turner transports the reader back to the glamourous, dangerous past in a richly atmospheric tale of suspense on the high seas. Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (born 20 May 1956), a Russian writer. He is best known as writer of detective and historical fiction. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili. Under his given name of Grigory Chkhartishvili, he serves as editor-in-chief of the 20-volume Anthology of Japanese Literature, chairman of the board of a large "Pushkin Library " and is the author of the book The Writer and Suicide. He has also contributed literary criticism and translations from Japanese, American and English literature under his own name. Since 1998 he has been writing fiction under the pseudonym "B. Akunin ". Decoding "B" as "Boris" appeared a few years later, when the writer began to be frequently interviewed. Murder on the Leviathan is the third novel in the Erast Fandorin historical detective series by Boris Akunin, although it was the second book in the series to be translated into English. Akunin conceived of the Fandorin series as a summary of all the genres of detective fiction, with each novel representing a different genre. Leviathan is his nod to Agatha Christie's style, with an exotic setting, a cast of unusual characters who each have secrets of their own, and a strange murder to start the action. The novel is set in 1878. The story opens with the murder in Paris of Lord Littleby, all seven of his servants and two children of servants. All were poisoned except for Littleby, who was bludgeoned with an ancient Indian artifact, a golden statuette of Shiva, which belonged to Lord Littleby and was stolen from his room, along with an old Indian shawl. French detective Gustave Gauche, in charge of the investigation, boards the passenger ship Leviathan. Gauche knows that the murderer must be one of the first-class passengers, because one of the special golden badges for the ship's first-class passengers was left in Littleby's room. Among the suspects are a Japanese Army officer, an addled English aristocrat, a married Swiss woman, and a clever young Russian diplomat on his way to his new post in Japan. The diplomat is Erast Fandorin, the master detective, who shoots down each of the ineffectual Gauche's incorrect conclusions, and in the end takes it on himself to find the murderer. Leviathan was nominated for Best European Crime Novel in the Gumshoe Awards 2005. The novel was adapted for the BBC's Saturday Play. The original broadcast was on 3 December 2005. Derived from a Kirkus review: This exemplary retro period puzzler, a Russian bestseller, pits two detectives against each other in a race to pick the murderer from a table of first-class passengers aboard a British steamship's maiden voyage. Two weeks before the 1878 sailing, that well-known collector Lord Littleby had been beaten to death in his Paris home by a ruthless killer who left no fewer than nine guards, servants, and children of the household dead on the floor below before making off with a golden statuette of Shiva. A clue clutched in Littleby's hand leads Commissioner Gustave Gauche to book passage on the Leviathan, en route to the mysterious East. On board, he swiftly narrows the list of primary suspects to four. Each of them?a troubled baronet, an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, the pregnant wife of a Swiss banker, and a faded English spinster?is given alternate chapters in which to watch and describe the others, and the results can stand with the most ingenious Golden Age stories, as Papa Gauche and Russian diplomat Erast P. Fandorin match wits to unmask the killer and explode each other's theories, as they do repeatedly over a mounting body count of avid dilettantes. The imperial/aristocratic milieu pays homage to Agatha Christie, the fiendishly clever Chinese-box plotting to Ellery Queen. Akunin's most distinctive contribution is a tone of dryly amused irony that continues to the last line. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 288 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 368 pages. 8.00x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition in English. First impression of the first UK edition, and first edition in English translation, being translated from the Russian into English by Andrew Bromfield. The fifth title in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels featuring the 19th-century James Bond, Erast Fandorin by Boris Akunin. ***Near fine in burgundy cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Top and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp with just a slight crease to the top corner of the front board. Boards clean and unmarked. Page block edges clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £12.99. No creases, chips or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper bright. ***328 pages. 224mm x 142mm. ***'Erast Fandorin has been described as 'the James Bond of the 19th century' - its difficult for a gentleman sleuth to keep his mind on a case when the new Dostoyevsky novel has just hit the shops'. ***'Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili. He has been compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone. He lives in Moscow.' (Quotes taken from the dustwrapper flaps). ***'Chkhartishvili "prefers to work with historical material" and has been called the "undisputed champion" of Russian crime fiction given that as Boris Akunin he "has written more than a dozen crime novels and has been widely appreciated by discerning readers, and has been translated into many languages'. ***'After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many trashy detective novels were published that featured a lot of gore and sex. Akunin's wife, in common with many other Russians, started to enjoy reading this genre of literature. However, she did not want to be seen reading the novels and she always wrapped them in brown paper to prevent people from seeing what she was reading. This inspired Akunin to create a detective novel which nobody would be ashamed to be caught reading, something between the literature of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky and the pulp of modern Russian detective novels. He set out to write a cycle about Fandorin with an exploration of every subgenre of the detective novel in mind, from spies to serial killers. In addition, he wanted to address different types of human character in his books. As Akunin identified sixteen subgenres of crime novels, as well as sixteen character types, the novels in the Erast Fandorin series ultimately numbered sixteen, with the final novel, "Not Saying Goodbye", published in 2018. The series is titled New detective, or New Mystery. This title serves to set the novels apart from the postmodernist intellectual novels as well as from the trashy detective novels, but it is also a subtle play on the use of time in the novels.' ***'The first Fandorin novel, "The Winter Queen", was published in Russia in 1998, and the latest and the last one, "Not Saying Goodbye", in 2018. The English translations of the novels have been critically acclaimed by, among others, Ruth Rendell'. (Wiki) ***First UK edition of the fifth of the Erast Fandorin novels to be translated into English, in nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 411 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition in English. First impression of the first UK edition, and first edition in English translation, being translated from the Russian into English by Andrew Bromfield. *** The fourth title in the critically acclaimed crime fiction series of novels featuring the 19th-century James Bond, Erast Fandorin by Boris Akunin. ***Near fine in dark red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. No creases. No bumps. Corners sharp. Boards clean and unmarked. Spine tight. No inscriptions. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's printed price of £12.99. No creases. No tears. Front and rear panels and spine of dustwrapper bright. ***330 pages. 224 mm x 142 mm. ***'Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow after an absence of six years, only to find himself instantly embroiled in court politics and scandal. His old friend Genral Sobolev - the famous 'Russian Achilles' - has been found dead in a hotel room, and Fandorin suspects foul play. Using his now-famous powers of detection - powers that belie his twenty-six years - Fandorin embarks on an investigation, in which the political and the personal become dangerously blurred. With the assistance of some formidable martial-arts skills, acquired whilst Fandorin was in Japan, our eccentric and ingenious hero must endeavour to discover not so much whodunit, as why.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***'The Russian Ian Fleming - Akunin's accomplished writing is a treat' Ruth Rendell.' ***'There is a hint of Gogol, more than a hint of Tolstoy and a generous dollop of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Akunin is the most playful of writers.' The Telegraph (Review quotes about "The Winter Queen" & "Turkish Gambit" from back panel of the dustwrapper). ***'Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of Grigory Chkhartishvili. He has been compared to Gogol, Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Erast Fandorin books have sold over eight million copies in Russia alone. He lives in Moscow.' (Quote taken from rear flap of dustwrapper). ***'Chkhartishvili "prefers to work with historical material" and has been called the "undisputed champion" of Russian crime fiction given that as Boris Akunin he "has written more than a dozen crime novels and has been widely appreciated by discerning readers, and has been translated into many languages. ***The first Fandorin novel, "The Winter Queen", was published in Russia in 1998, and the latest and the last one, "Not Saying Goodbye", in 2018. The English translations of the novels have been critically acclaimed by, among others, Ruth Rendell. [Wiki] **First UK edition of the fourth of the Erast Fandorin novels to be translated into English, in nice collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.