Leviathan

On March 15, 1878, a terrible murder was committed on Rue de Grenelle in Paris. Lord Littleby and nine of his servants were killed. The criminal took nothing from the house except for a figurine of the god Shiva and... a colored handkerchief. The investigation leads police commissioner Gosh to the luxurious ship 'Leviathan,' sailing to Calcutta. The murderer is on the ship, but who is it? Among the suspects, each hiding their own secret, are an English aristocrat, an officer in the Japanese army, the pregnant wife of a Swiss bank employee, and a young Russian diplomat with gray temples…Time setting — 1878. Erast Fandorin is 22 years old.The edition is supplemented with illustrations by Igor Sakurov.