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** Achimas's whole story is an extended Shout Out to the mythological Achilles. Their names are similar, they both hid out dressed as girls when they were young, they both killed a famous general, they both were shot in the leg by an arrow, etc. Wiki/TheOtherWiki goes into great detail [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Achilles#Allusions_to_the_Iliad_and_other_Greek_myths here]].
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** Achimas's whole story is an extended Shout Out to the mythological Achilles. Their names are similar, they both hid out dressed as girls when they were young, they both killed a famous general, they both were shot in the leg by an arrow, etc. Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki goes into great detail [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Achilles#Allusions_to_the_Iliad_and_other_Greek_myths here]].
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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit The background of Achimas Welde from includes him being promised a million if he manages to save a SpoiledBrat from the noose. The case is clear-cut, with several bodies of little girls murdered in a NightmareFuel fashion found in the guy's basement. Achimas manages to arrange for the blame to be shifted onto the guy who reported the bodies, who, suspiciously, is nowhere to be found (of course he isn't. Achimas is no SpoiledBrat, and therefore isn't sloppy with hiding corpses).
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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit The background DeceasedFallGuyGambit: One of Achimas Welde from includes him being Achimas' earlier contracts promised him a million francs if he manages managed to save a SpoiledBrat from the noose. The case is clear-cut, with several bodies of little girls murdered in a NightmareFuel fashion found in the guy's basement. Achimas manages to arrange for the blame to be shifted onto the guy who reported the bodies, who, suspiciously, is nowhere to be found (of course he isn't. isn't -- Achimas is no SpoiledBrat, and therefore isn't sloppy with hiding corpses).
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Only if one processes all the allusions to the mythical Achilles, who in this novel is Achimas. So the title refers both to the death of Sobolev, called "the Russian Achilles", and of Achimas.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Only if one processes all the allusions to the mythical Achilles, who in this novel is Achimas. So the title refers both to the death of Sobolev, called "the Russian Achilles", Achilles"[[note]]a moniker actually dismissed by the Grand Prince at Skobelev's state funeral, who states that "Russian Hector" would be much more appropriate[[/note]], and of Achimas.
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* {{Expy}}: "Michel Sobolev" is a transparently obvious stand-in for the RealLife Mikahil Skobelev, who was in fact a Russian general and did in fact die suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1882 at the age of 38.
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* {{Expy}}: "Michel Sobolev" is a transparently obvious stand-in for the RealLife Mikahil Mikhail Skobelev, who was in fact a Russian general and did in fact die suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1882 at the age of 38.
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* IOweYouMyLife: It's explained that Masa is now Fandorin's manservant because Fandorin saved his life in Japan. (As noted above, this and other stuff from Fandorin's time in Japan is explored in ''The Diamond Chariot'').
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* IOweYouMyLife: It's explained that Masa is now Fandorin's manservant because Fandorin saved his life in Japan. (As noted above, this and other stuff from Fandorin's time in Japan is explored in ''The Diamond Chariot'').Chariot''.)
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* IdenticalLookingAsians: Inverted when Fandorin, frustrated at Masa's vague description of the suspect, says "We all l-look alike to him."
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* RacialFaceBlindness: Inverted when Fandorin, frustrated at the Japanese Masa's vague description of the suspect, says "We all l-look alike to him."
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** Achimas's whole story is an extended Shout Out to the mythological Achilles. Their names are similar, they both hid out dressed as girls when they were young, they both killed a famous general, they both were shot in the leg by an arrow, etc. TheOtherWiki goes into great detail [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Achilles#Allusions_to_the_Iliad_and_other_Greek_myths here]].
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** Achimas's whole story is an extended Shout Out to the mythological Achilles. Their names are similar, they both hid out dressed as girls when they were young, they both killed a famous general, they both were shot in the leg by an arrow, etc. TheOtherWiki Wiki/TheOtherWiki goes into great detail [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Achilles#Allusions_to_the_Iliad_and_other_Greek_myths here]].
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* SelfPoisoningGambit: Achimas at one point recalls doing this at one point in order to kill one of his targets, a rich, old, industrialist. The poison in question only became lethal when combined with a racing heartbeat, so the two drank poisoned wine together and then Achimas told the industrialist that the man's nephew was trying to kill him. Sure enough the industrialist died on the spot, while Achimas spent a while moving very slowly and carefully until the poison broke down and became harmless.
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* ShoutOut: Achimas's whole story is an extended Shout Out to the mythological Achilles. Their names are similar, they both hid out dressed as girls when they were young, they both killed a famous general, they both were shot in the leg by an arrow, etc. TheOtherWiki goes into great detail [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Achilles#Allusions_to_the_Iliad_and_other_Greek_myths here]].
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** Achimas's whole story is an extended Shout Out to the mythological Achilles. Their names are similar, they both hid out dressed as girls when they were young, they both killed a famous general, they both were shot in the leg by an arrow, etc. TheOtherWiki goes into great detail [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Achilles#Allusions_to_the_Iliad_and_other_Greek_mythshere]].here]].
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** Achimas's whole story is an extended Shout Out to the mythological Achilles. Their names are similar, they both hid out dressed as girls when they were young, they both killed a famous general, they both were shot in the leg by an arrow, etc. TheOtherWiki goes into great detail [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Achilles#Allusions_to_the_Iliad_and_other_Greek_myths
** Several phrases and mannerisms used by Achimas Welde in ''Death of Achilles'' are taken almost verbatim from Creator/FrederickForsyth's ''Literature/TheDayOfTheJackal''.
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* DragonTheirFeet: Achimas Welde, the anonymous assassin of the first novel, escapes Fandorin and returns three books later as the BigBad.
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* AssassinsAreAlwaysBetrayed: [[DoubleSubversion Doubly subverted]]: Achimas ''thinks'' his contractor betrayed him (as he expected from the start) but it turns out that it was just his liaison who tried pocketing Achimas' payment. His contractor lets Achimas kill the liaison and thanks him for a well-done job.
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* WritingIndentationClue: Fandorin figures out Achimas's address by tracing the indentation in a notepad he found on the scene.
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* OutWithABang: {{Invoked| Trope}} and {{Exploited| Trope}} with Achimas' intricate murder of General Sobolev.
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* OutWithABang: {{Invoked| Trope}} and {{Exploited| Trope}} with Achimas' intricate murder of General Sobolev. Welde gets Sobolev to ingest a rare poison that only kills the victim when their heart exceeds a certain rate. Then he arranges a night of sex between Sobolev and Wanda the hooker, to get Sobolev's heart rate up.
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* ShoutOut: Achimas's whole story is an extended Shout Out to the mythological Achilles. Their names are similar, they both hid out dressed as girls when they were young, they both killed a famous general, they both were shot in the leg by an arrow, etc. TheOtherWiki goes into great detail [[[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_0691_2.JPG]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Achilles#Allusions_to_the_Iliad_and_other_Greek_myths here]].
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