BORIS AKUNIN - The Death of Achilles The Fourth Mystery in the Erast Fandorin Series.

London England, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. 1st Uk Edition, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0297645536 Harback Hardback. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. 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 General 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 bluured. With the assistance of some formidable martial-arts skills, acquired whilst Fandorin was in Japan, our eccentric and ingeniuous hero must endeavour to discover not so much whodunit, as why..330 pp.