Erast Fandorin - 'A popular hero to equal Sherlock Holmes and James Bond' (The Times)' - returns in the penultimate installment of the hugely popular historical mystery series.
The eleventh book in the "Erast Fandorin Mysteries" series likened in the "Guardian" to 'Tolstoy writing James Bond' sees a beautiful actress from an infamous theatre troupe have an incident with a viper, which concerns Chekhov's wife who brings Fandorin in.