by Boris Akunin · W&N · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753821572
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«Pelagia and the White Bulldog» is the first mystery novel in Boris Akunin's Sister Pelagia series, published by W&N in paperback, in English.
In late 19th-century Zavolzhsk, the arrival of a synodal inspector unsettles the town. At the Drozdovka estate, the owner's white bulldog is poisoned, and she fears for her other dogs while the heirs wait. Sister Pelagia, clumsy but clever, investigates at the bishop's request; soon two decapitated bodies appear in the river.
First installment of the Sister Pelagia Mystery series; English translation by Andrew Bromfield. Original Russian title: «Пелагия и белый бульдог» (2000).
For fans of historical crime fiction and Russian fiction, and for those new to the Sister Pelagia series.
Grigori Chkhartishvili, better known by his pen name Boris Akunin, is a Georgian and Russian writer residing in the United Kingdom. He is best known as a writer of historical fiction, specifically his Erast Fandorin detective novels. He is also an essayist and literary translator. Grigory Chkhartishvili has also written under pen names Anatoly Brusnikin, Anna Borisova, and Akunin-Chkhartishvili. His characters include Erast Fandorin, Nicholas Fandorin and Sister Pelagia.
