The Pit

A great adventure of Erast Petrovich Fandorin, told by his steadfast assistant Masahiro Shibata, begins on the first day of the twentieth century. Just now they had to compete with England’s most famous detective and France’s most notorious criminal, and now another contest of minds is about to begin. A challenge is thrown at the great sleuth, and Mаса still doesn’t know what emotional shocks await them both.

Many years later, he tells this story, full of secrets and wounded hearts—because books are written precisely to solve the unsolved and to reopen old wounds, in hopes that perhaps they will heal…