Murder on the Leviathan

The third Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger.

''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 Woody Allen version of an Agatha Christie novel...Akunin''s work is gloriously tongue-in-chee...