This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin a gentleman sleuth who solvesmurders and mysteries in Tsarist Russia. Moscow 1876. A young law studentcommits su... » 

This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin a gentleman sleuth who solvesmurders and mysteries in Tsarist Russia. Moscow 1876. A young law studentcommits suicide in broad daylight in Moscows Alexander Gardens. But this is noordinary death for the young man was the son of an influential industrialistand has left a considerable fortune. Erast Fandorin a hotheaded new recruit tothe Criminal Investigation Department is assigned to the case. Brilliantyoung and sophisticated Fandorin embarks on an investigation that will takehim from the palatial mansions of Moscow to the seedy backstreets of London inhis hunt for the conspirators behind this mysterious death. «