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Murder on the Leviathan - Boris Akunin

Description: ISBN 0753818434 / Author: Boris Akunin / Genre: Fiction / 'Akunin is an outstanding novelist...Fandorin is a beautifully drawn character who more than lives up to comparisons with Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes...The characters are delightful and you can imagine them in a ... more

Murder on the Leviathan - Boris Akunin ... Woody Allen version of an Agatha Christie novel...Akunin's work is gloriously tongue-in-cheek but seriously edge-of-your-seat at the same time' Daily Express On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest steamship, as the murderer is one of the 142 first class passengers. Commissioner Gauche of the French police has narrowed down the suspects to ten, and they are forced to eat together at every meal time in the ship's Windsor Suite until 'the Crime of the Century' is solved. But is the murderer really at the table, and can Erast Fandorin discover his or her identity before Gauche? As more passengers are murdered and the Leviathan heads towards Calcutta, Fandorin needs all his investigative skills to find the truth.

Newest Review: ... committed the murder. In this case the policeman, Papa Gauche, eliminates all but ten passengers on the Leviathan and they ... more

... are forced to eat every meal together on the voyage to India. I thought there was a weakness in the plot when the ten suspects were chosen as the selection seemed to be only little better than random. That’s me being picky though. It is pastiche after all and there were moments of laugh-out-loud humour in the course of the selection. One of the suspects is Erast Fandorin, a Russian diplomat. Fandorin has appeared as an investigator in an earlier Akunin novel, “The Winter Queen”. I suspect that I might have unde...more

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Murder on the Leviathan - Boris Akunin: Leviathan (876 words)
by SueMagee - written on 22/11/05 (Very useful, 138 readings)
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My daughter visited me recently and seemed unable to take her nose out of the book she’d brought with her. Before she left she passed it to me with the suggestion that I might enjoy it. I glanced at it: a book translated from the original Russian about a fictional murder which took place in Paris in 1878 and openly described as pastiche? I thought not, but dropped it on the pile of books waiting to be read. Then came the night when there was nothing else to read. I picked it up – and couldn’t put it down. On a March evening in 1878 Lord Littleby is found battered to death in his Paris home. His eight servants and two of their children are found ...

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