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Subtitle: the further adventures of Erast Fandorin
By: Boris Akunin ; translated by Andrew Bromfield
Contributors: Akunin, B. (Boris); Akunin, B. (Boris)
Series: An Erast Fandorin mystery -- 5; Erast Fandorin mystery -- 5.
Publisher: ISIS; ISIS Large Print Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780753179963; 9780753179970
Subjects: Erast Fandorin (Fictitious character); Fiction; Private investigators; Russian Detective and mystery stories; Large type books; History
Work titles: Pikovyĭ valet
Description: Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia's suavest sleuth, faces two formidable new foes: One steals outrageous sums of money, the other takes lives. "The Jack of Spades" is a civilized swindler who has conned thousands of rubles from Moscow's residents -- including Fandorin's own boss, Prince Dolgorukoi. To catch him, Fandorin and his new assistant, timid young policeman Anisii Tulipov, must don almost as many disguises as the grifter does himself. "The Decorator" is a different case altogether: A savage serial killer who believes he "cleans" the women he mutilates and takes his orders from on high, he must be given Fandorin's most serious attentions.
Notes: This translation originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. Collection originally published in Russian with the title: Osobye porucheniia.

Translated from the Russian.

Translated from the Russian.
Table of contents: title: Jack of Spades; title: Decorator.