By Boris Akunin
There is been emerging drawback in Moscow over a wave of suicides one of the city's younger bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, starts off to discover the reality in the back of the phenomenon - that the sufferers are associated by way of a mystery society, the fanatics of demise. yet Zhemailo isn't the in basic terms investigator sizzling at the heels of those disciples of the occult. Little do they appreciate that the most recent 'convert' to their mystery society, assuming the alias of a jap prince, is none except Erast Fandorin. but if a tender and naive provincial lady, Masha Mironova, turns into embroiled within the society, and Zhemalio dies a mysterious demise, Fandorin needs to do greater than simply infiltrate and become aware of. specially while the spin of the Russian roulette wheel decrees that our rushing hero be the subsequent to die through his personal hand. Can Fandorin faux his personal loss of life, all whereas outwitting the cult's dastardly chief?
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It was obvious straight away that you were living in a real city and not a village. The side street that the windows of the room overlooked was as narrow as could be. If you stood on a stool in the kitchen and looked out through the small upper window frame, you could see the Kremlin towers and the spires of the Historical Museum. The living space was not actually located in a garret or attic, as Columbine had been dreaming it would be, but it was on the top floor. Add to this that it was fully furnished, with gas lighting and an American stove.
Soimonov had no family or servants. , he often went out in the evenings and came back long after midnight. Numerous rough drafts for poems of an extremely sombre complexion were discovered among Soimonov’s papers. None of his colleagues were aware that the deceased was in the habit of composing verse, and when some of those questioned were informed of the poetic efforts of this Chekhovian ‘man in a case’, they actually refused to believe it. The invitation to the name-day party which ended in such a grisly fashion came as a complete surprise to Soimonov’s colleagues at the grammar school.
In the first round the young man drew the ace of hearts – the symbol of love – and in the second round the death’s head. As a man of his word, he shot himself. The inconsolable fiancée denounced ‘The Aware’ to the police, and as a result the whole business became public knowledge. To judge from what has been happening in Moscow in recent weeks, our death-worshippers have no fear of public opinion and are not too concerned about publicity – at least, they do not take any measures to conceal the fruits of their activities.