"Azazel" is the first novel in the series of historical detective novels by Erst Fandorin, written by Russian author Boris Akonin.
As the summary of this story is below, you are in for a novel full of mysterious crimes and organized chases ...
"Azazel" is the first novel in the series of historical detective novels by Erst Fandorin, written by Russian author Boris Akonin.
As the summary of this story is below, you are in for a novel full of mysterious crimes and organized chases. Like great Russian stories, a novel full of subtle events and different characters.
This novel takes place on May 13, 1876. And the story begins with a student named Pyotr Kokurin who commits suicide in a public park in front of a beautiful young noblewoman, Elizathe von Evert-Kolokoletsova. His will bequeaths his great fortune to the newly opened Moscow branch of the Astaire House, an international network of schools for orphaned boys, founded by an English noblewoman, Lady Astaire. The seemingly open and closed suicide case comes to 20-year-old inexperienced detective Erast Fandorin. He interviews Elizata and immediately falls in love with her. Further research reveals that Kokurin was playing Russian roulette (in the novel "American Roulette") with another university student named Akhtirtsev.
Fandorin snoops on Akhtyrtsev, who leads him to a sensual dark-haired woman named Amalia Bezhetskaya, whom Fandorin recognizes from a picture in Kokurin's room. He follows Bezhetskaya to her house, where she spends her time playing with the many men who come to visit. At Beztskaya's house, Fandorin meets Count Zurov, an army officer whom Amalia seems to have a crush on, and sees Akhtyrtsev again. Akhtyrtsev and Fandorin leave Amalia's house together to drink, and Akhtyrtsev reveals to Fandorin that the game of Russian roulette between him and Kokurin was Bezhetskaya's idea. Just as the mystery of Kokurin's suicide seems to be solved, a mysterious white-eyed assassin stabs Akhshtestov and tries to kill Fandorin.
The white-eyed man whispers one word: "Azazel."
Akhtirtsov's murder brings a lot of attention to what seemed like a normal case. Fandorin gets a new boss, Evan Berling, a sophisticated detective familiar with modern investigative techniques. Burling believes that this murder is the work of a terrorist organization called "Azazel" that operates in Moscow.
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