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Murder on the Leviathan (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #3)

Boris Akunin,

Andrew Bromfield (Translator)

Start date: January 15, 2025

Finish date: February 8, 2025

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Jan 08, 2025 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is the third Erast Fandorin Mystery and is probably the one I have enjoyed the most. On the 15th March, 1878, in Paris, collector Lord Littleby is found dead along with members of his servants and household. There is no sign of injury or struggle, his servants mostly seated around a table, dead. In his hand, Lord Littleby clutches a token from the ship Leviathan, making that Commissioner Gauche, who is investigating, embarks on a voyage.

Gauche is a somewhat simple man. His first thought is ...more

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Feb 12, 2008 Nancy Oakes rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-crime-fiction, crime-fiction, translated-crime-fiction, crime-fiction-russia-ussr

1878: At the Paris home of Lord Littleby, a known collector of Indian (meaning from India) artifacts & treasures, a gruesome crime has been committed. Seated together around a table, 9 servants were found dead and upstairs, Lord Littleby himself was bludgeoned to death with a heavy object. Missing from his collection was a statue of the god Shiva, and a shawl. The Inspector of the French police working the case, a M. Gauche, finds one and only one piece of evidence: a golden badge in the shape o ...more

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