Written by Boris Akunin
Read by Paul Michael
Format: MP3
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Abridged

International intrigue, professional rivalry, the criminal underworld
of nineteenth-century Moscow, and an irresistible femme fatale: if Erast
Fandorin was hoping for a quiet homecoming, he is about to be disappointed.
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, during which the political and
the personal may 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 ...