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About Boris Akunin
See more books from this AuthorEach 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 ...
| Read Full Review of Murder on the Leviathan: A No...Akunin writes like a hybrid of Caleb Carr, Agatha Christie and Elizabeth Peters in his second mystery to be published in the U.S., set on the maiden voyage of the British luxury ship
Mar 22 2004 | Read Full Review of Murder on the Leviathan: A No...Akunin's young Russian detective/diplomat protagonist, Erast Fandorin, has matured considerably since his debut in last year's highly praised The Winter Queen , set in 1876, and proves a worthy foil to French police commissioner Gustave Gauche, who boards the Leviathan because a clue suggests th...
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Dec 27 2007 | Read Full Review of Murder on the Leviathan: A No...(The first to be translated into English, The Winter Queen, came out last year.) This time, Fandorin finds himself on a luxury cruise ship bound for India -- the floating equivalent of the Orient Express, it turns out, for all the exotic murder suspects the vessel contains -- and inevitably g...
Apr 30 2004 | Read Full Review of Murder on the Leviathan: A No...Obviously, it's difficult to split the style of the author from the style of the translator, but this book did make for very easy reading, which isn't always the case with books set in the last-but-one century.
Dec 02 2014 | Read Full Review of Murder on the Leviathan: A No...And when the other passengers discover why Gauche is traveling with them, each one does his or her part to lead Gauche to the murderer.
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