Name: Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog

Author: Boris Akunin
Year: 2000
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Mystery, Detective
Culture: Russia

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9780812975130
0812975138
'€œPelagia'€™s family likeness to Father Brown and Miss Marple is marked, and reading about her supplies a similarly decorous pleasure.'€ '€“The Literary Review In a remote Russian province in the late nineteenth century, Bishop Mitrofanii must deal with a family crisis. After learning that one of his great aunt'€™s beloved and rare white bulldogs has been poisoned, the Orthodox bishop knows there is only one detective clever enough to investigate the murder: Sister Pelagia. The bespectacled, freckled Pelagia is lively, curious, extraordinarily clumsy, and persistent. At the estate in question, she finds a whole host of suspects, any one of whom might have benefited if the old lady (who changes her will at whim) had expired of grief at the pooch'€™s demise. There'€™s Pyotr, the matron'€™s grandson, a nihilist with a grudge who has fallen for the maid; Stepan, the penniless caretaker, who has sacrificed his youth to the care of the estate; Miss Wrigley, a mysterious Englishwoman who has recently been named sole heiress to the fortune; Poggio, an opportunistic and freeloading '€œartistic'€ photographer; and, most intriguingly, Naina, the old lady'€™s granddaughter, a girl so beautiful she could drive any man to do almost anything. As Pelagia bumbles and intuits her way to the heart of a mystery among people with faith only in greed and desire, she must bear in mind the words of Saint Paul: '€œBeware of dogs'€“and beware of evil-doers.'€ '€œCritics on both sides of the Atlantic have praised [Akunin'€™s] clever plots, vivid characters and wit.'€ '€“Baltimore Sun '€œAkunin'€™s wonderful novels are always intricately webbed and plotted.'€ '€“The Providence Journal From the Trade Paperback edition.
This book is part of the "Sister Pelagia Mysteries" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"Pelagia and the Black Monk"
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