For the first time in one e-book all the works of Boris Akunin from the Adventure Master's cycle. The cycle opens with the novel "Altyn-tolobas". British subject Baronet Nicholas Fandorin, a descendant of the famous Russian detective Erast Fandorin, goes to Russia. Ancient secrets of Moscow dungeons, the seventeenth century - and the modern hero - a basketball historian in good English costume follows in the footsteps of his ancestor Cornelius von Dorn in search of a mystical artifact. And if the ancestor has to survive in Muscovy after a time of turmoil, then the ancestor-baronet in the dashing 90s. The second part of the cycle is "Out-of-class reading". In the novel, two storylines develop in parallel. The action of one takes place in the last year of the reign of Catherine the Great, and the other at the beginning of the XXI century. In one part - palace intrigues and kidnapping of youngsters. In the other part - business disassembly and ... kidnapping of youngsters. As Akunin himself tells, the third book is "F.M." - he was moved by rivalry with Dan Brown, who wrote "The Da Vinci Code": "In the new novel," F. M. ", I amused myself, mimicking Dan Brown, there it can be seen with the naked eye. In general, I first wanted to write a novel that would be called "The code of the painting" Morning in a pine forest "" for everyone to study the bears and look at hemp, but then I decided that it was more interesting to play "Crime and Punishment". In the last, fourth novel, The Falcon and the Swallow, it is told that the wealthy English aunt Cynthia presents a generous gift to Nicholas Fandorin - a manuscript from Theofels Castle. In a letter written by mysterious Epin, the path to the cache with a large treasure is encrypted. Fandorin has to decipher the mysterious message, and he takes up the case with passion, not even suspecting that his distant relative, Leticia von Dorn, the niece of Captain Cornelius von Dorn, is hiding under the name of Appin ...