Boriss Akunin „Azazel“
Moscow chapter of Astair House, an international network of schools for orphan boys founded by an English noblewoman,
Lady Astair. The apparently open-and-shut suicide case falls to inexperienced 20-year-old detective Erast Fandorin. He
interviews Elizaveta, and immediately falls in love with her. Further investigation reveals that Kokorin was playing Russian
roulette (called "American roulette" in the novel) with another university student, Akhtyrtsev.
Fandorin tails Akhtyrtsev, who leads him to a sensuous dark-haired woman, Amalia Bezhetskaya, whom Fandorin recognizes
from a picture in Kokorin's room. He follows Bezhetskaya to her home, where she spends her time toying with the many
men who come to visit. At Bezhetskaya's home, Fandorin meets Count Zurov, an Army officer that Amalia seems fond of,
and sees Akhtyrtsev again. Akhtyrtsev and Fandorin leave Amalia's house together to go drinking, and Akhtyrtsev reveals to
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