Not bad, but just not for me. I'm not keen on pastiche and this was very ... unoriginal. It felt like a story cobbled together with bits and pieces of other books: Sherlock Holmes, Conrad's The Secret Agent, some Chekhov...and possibly some early James Bond. The writing was consistently good an...
bookshelves: hardback, one-penny-wonder, slavic, winter-20122013, mystery-thriller, series, published-1998, paper-read, tbr-busting-2013, adventure, historical-fiction Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Carey Combe Read from December 03, 2012 to January 10, 2013 Translated by Andrew Bromfield.The Tabl...
Light entertainment, a little Russian noir, but too fantastic whilst too formulaic for my liking.The period background is enlightning, but that's where my interest stopped.Won't read more of his.
This is another Christmas gift from my friend Mike, who has excellent taste. Very junior police official Erast Fandorin is on the case in Tsarist Russia of a series of suicide attempts that ends all too successfully. Naturally it all leads to an international organization bent on world manipulation,...
Interesting read about the time before the revolution when, from the book's perspective, Russian culture was fairly advanced and "European." Without saying what it was, not a big fan of the ending.
Translated by Andrew Bromfield.The Table of RanksOpening: On Monday the thirteenth of May in the year 1876, between the hours of two and three in the afternoon, on a day which combined the freshness of spring with the warmth of summer, numerous individuals in Moscow's Alexander Gardens unexpectedly ...
Another BBC WBC influenced read, the birth of Erast Fandorin the great Russian police. It' funny how I adjust my standard on each type of book. It seems that I don't exactly insist on realism or fantasy or whatever, but only that a story stays consistent.Take Wallander for example, it showed from th...
More espionage than murder mystery, this book is highly reminiscent of certain Christie and Conan Doyle books which deal more with international conspiracies than classic crime. Overall I enjoyed the read, and liked the main character of Fandorin, who brings a charming combination of naivety, intel...
The Book Report: Young, orphaned Erast Fandorin has landed a comparatively cushy job for one whose comfortable future in czarist Russia was snatched away by the machinations of capitalists, beggaring and causing the suicide of his father: Erast is a fourteenth-class state functionary, serving a poli...
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