Boriss Akunin „Azazel“
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
Fandorin that the Russian roulette game between him and Kokorin was Bezhetskaya's idea. Just as the mystery of Kokorin's
suicide seems to be solved, a mysterious white-eyed assassin stabs Akhtyrstev to death and tries to kill Fandorin, only to fail
when his knife bounces off the corset Fandorin is wearing
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