Pelagia and the White Bulldog by Boris Akunin. Paperback 2007. 344 pp.

Pelagia and the White Bulldog

Sister Pelagia, bespectacled, freckled and clumsy, but astonishingly resourceful, is summoned by the Bishop of the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk to investigate the death of a prized white bulldog that was poisoned. Her investigation takes a sinister turn when two headless human bodies are pulled out of the river on the edge of the estate. Translated by Andrew Bromfield from Russian.

First published in Great Britain in 2006. This paperback edition published in 2007 by Phoenix, London.

Condition: Good. Pages lightly yellowed. Pen underlining on one page.

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