Erast Fandorin Books in Order

A Paris mansion full of poisoned corpses leads French inspector Gauche to the steamship Leviathan, where the killer must be among the first class passengers. Sharing the voyage is Erast Fandorin, whose cool logic soon collides with Gauche's clumsy theories.

Back from years in Japan, Erast Fandorin arrives in Moscow to find his friend, war hero General Sobolev, lying dead in a hotel room. Officially it is a heart attack, but his search for the truth exposes a calculating hired killer and dangerous politics.

During the Russo Turkish War, independent minded Varvara Suvorova travels to the front to see her fiancé and instead falls in with Erast Fandorin. Together they hunt a master spy whose coded messages could tip the entire campaign.

Young police clerk Erast Fandorin is handed what looks like a simple student suicide in a Moscow park. Following a trail through salons, gambling dens, and an English charity, he uncovers a conspiracy that reaches far beyond his quiet desk job.

Two linked novellas see Erast Fandorin tackling very different predators in late imperial Moscow, first a smooth con man fleecing the city's rich, then a sadistic killer whose crimes echo Jack the Ripper and drag Fandorin into the darkest streets.

When a high ranking official is murdered on a train by someone posing as Erast Fandorin, the real detective must unmask the killers to save his own reputation. His pursuit of a ruthless terror group entangles him with ambitious politicians on both sides of the law.

Dreaming of romance and poetry, provincial Masha Mironova runs away to Moscow and joins a decadent literary circle called the Lovers of Death. When its staged suicides begin to look like murders, an undercover Erast Fandorin slips into the group in disguise.

During the lavish 1896 coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, a young grand duke is kidnapped under the nose of his household. As courtiers scramble to hide the scandal, Erast Fandorin works with a worried majordomo to outwit a brilliant criminal mastermind.

In Moscow's lawless Khitrovka slums, rumors of hidden treasure swirl around a fatalistic beauty known as Death. As petty thieves and desperate dreamers close in, Erast Fandorin navigates alleys, taverns, and secret cellars to uncover what people will kill for.

Told in two interlocking parts, this novel follows Erast Fandorin as he guards the Trans Siberian Railway from sabotage during the Russo Japanese War, then flashes back to his earlier years in Yokohama, where love, espionage, and a ninjutsu teacher shaped the detective he becomes.

In 1911 Moscow, a string of ominous accidents targets glamorous actress Eliza Altairsky Lointaine, whose jealous ex husband has sworn to kill any new suitor. Drawn to her both as client and as lover, aging Fandorin investigates the theatre's rivalries from the wings.

On the brink of World War I, Erast Fandorin follows an elusive revolutionary bomber to booming oil city Baku. Among rival tycoons, nationalist plots, and his own wife's film shoot, he must stop an attack that could ignite unrest far beyond the Caucasus.

Awakening from a long coma in 1918, Erast Fandorin finds Moscow hungry, chaotic, and ruled by the new Soviet secret police. Planning to escape with his loyal friend Masa, he is pulled into one last, wide ranging case across the Russian Civil War.