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'Sister Pelagia' is the heroine of a trilogy of mystery novels by Boris Akunin.
Pelagia is a nun, acting as a girls' school teacher in the late 19th century Zavolzhsk (which is fictitious, though it shares a name with an actual city), a town on the banks of the Volga in provincial Russia. No dates are mentioned, but references to ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''The Kreutzer Sonata'', the Olympics and Marie Curie make it clear that the action is set in the late 1890s or in the early 1900s.
Pelagia has an exceptional detective talent, and with the support of the bishop of Zavolzhsk, Mitrofaniy and the local prosecuting attorney Matvei Berdichevsky, she investigates a number of mysterious cases.
The first novel, '''Pelagia and the White Bulldog''' (Пелагия и белый бульдог) is set in Zavolzhsk and the surrounding countryside. It was published in English in 2006 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson with ISBN 0-297-84862-3.
In the second novel, '''Pelagia and the Black Monk''' (Пелагия и черный монах), Pelagia investigates strange events in a remote island monastery in Mitrofaniy's dioscese (on an island in the fictitious Blue Lake in the equally fictitious Zavolzhsk province). The plot contains many allusions to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose as well as several novels by Dostoevsky. It will be published in English in 2007 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson with ISBN 0-297-85086-5.
In '''Pelagia and the Red Rooster''' (Пелагия и красный петух), the action takes us from a steamboat on the Volga to Stroganovka, a fictitious village near the Urals, and on to Jerusalem, an early Zionist commune in Megiddo and to Sodom. Events in Imperial Russia move to Zhytomyr and Saint Petersburg.
★ Full texts, in Russian, of ''Pelagia and the White Bulldog'', ''Pelagia and the Black Monk'', and ''Pelagia and the Red Rooster''
★ Excerpt in English from ''Pelagia and the White Bulldog''
★ Review (negative) of ''Pelagia and the White Bulldog''
★ Pelagia bio at Clerical Detectives
Pelagia is a nun, acting as a girls' school teacher in the late 19th century Zavolzhsk (which is fictitious, though it shares a name with an actual city), a town on the banks of the Volga in provincial Russia. No dates are mentioned, but references to ''Sherlock Holmes'', ''The Kreutzer Sonata'', the Olympics and Marie Curie make it clear that the action is set in the late 1890s or in the early 1900s.
Pelagia has an exceptional detective talent, and with the support of the bishop of Zavolzhsk, Mitrofaniy and the local prosecuting attorney Matvei Berdichevsky, she investigates a number of mysterious cases.
The first novel, '''Pelagia and the White Bulldog''' (Пелагия и белый бульдог) is set in Zavolzhsk and the surrounding countryside. It was published in English in 2006 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson with ISBN 0-297-84862-3.
In the second novel, '''Pelagia and the Black Monk''' (Пелагия и черный монах), Pelagia investigates strange events in a remote island monastery in Mitrofaniy's dioscese (on an island in the fictitious Blue Lake in the equally fictitious Zavolzhsk province). The plot contains many allusions to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose as well as several novels by Dostoevsky. It will be published in English in 2007 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson with ISBN 0-297-85086-5.
In '''Pelagia and the Red Rooster''' (Пелагия и красный петух), the action takes us from a steamboat on the Volga to Stroganovka, a fictitious village near the Urals, and on to Jerusalem, an early Zionist commune in Megiddo and to Sodom. Events in Imperial Russia move to Zhytomyr and Saint Petersburg.
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★ Full texts, in Russian, of ''Pelagia and the White Bulldog'', ''Pelagia and the Black Monk'', and ''Pelagia and the Red Rooster''
★ Excerpt in English from ''Pelagia and the White Bulldog''
★ Review (negative) of ''Pelagia and the White Bulldog''
★ Pelagia bio at Clerical Detectives
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