Winter Queen, The [Book At Bedtime]

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20031013

By Boris Akunin.

Translated by Andrew Bromfield.

Read by David Troughton.

A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in the city's Alexander Gardens.

The young detective Erast Fandorin is put on the case, which deepens as he discovers that the student had recently inherited considerable assets.

20031014

Erast Fandorin is becoming increasingly concerned by the inconsistencies of the suicide case.

20031015

Young detective Erast Fandorin has traced the mysterious beauty whose photograph he saw on the desk of the Moscow student whose suicide he is investigating.

20031016

A senior officer is assigned to the case after Erast Fandorin is attacked in the street.

20031017

Fandorin goes undercover to visit a notorious gambling den.

20031020

Fandorin has travelled from Moscow to The Winter Queen Hotel in London on the trail of the elusive Cleopatra.

20031021

Betrayed by a traitor in the Russian Embassy, Fandorin is bound, gagged and on the way to a watery grave in the Thames.

20031022

The trail has led Fandorin back to St Petersburg, where he is delighted to meet up with his Chief, Ivan Brilling.

20031023

Fandorin has an important chance meeting on the overnight express from St Petersburg to Moscow.

10 LAST

20031024

In the concluding episode of Boris Akunin's best-seller, Fandorin has tracked down the leader of the organisation Azazel, but his life remains in peril.

Episodes

Episode	First Broadcast	Comments
01	20031013	By Boris Akunin. Translated by Andrew Bromfield. Read by David Troughton. A 23-year-old law student commits suicide in broad daylight in the city's Alexander Gardens. The young detective Erast Fandorin is put on the case, which deepens as he discovers that the student had recently inherited considerable assets.
02	20031014	Erast Fandorin is becoming increasingly concerned by the inconsistencies of the suicide case.
03	20031015	Young detective Erast Fandorin has traced the mysterious beauty whose photograph he saw on the desk of the Moscow student whose suicide he is investigating.
04	20031016	A senior officer is assigned to the case after Erast Fandorin is attacked in the street.
05	20031017	Fandorin goes undercover to visit a notorious gambling den.
06	20031020	Fandorin has travelled from Moscow to The Winter Queen Hotel in London on the trail of the elusive Cleopatra.
07	20031021	Betrayed by a traitor in the Russian Embassy, Fandorin is bound, gagged and on the way to a watery grave in the Thames.
08	20031022	The trail has led Fandorin back to St Petersburg, where he is delighted to meet up with his Chief, Ivan Brilling.
09	20031023	Fandorin has an important chance meeting on the overnight express from St Petersburg to Moscow.
10 LAST	20031024	In the concluding episode of Boris Akunin's best-seller, Fandorin has tracked down the leader of the organisation Azazel, but his life remains in peril.