YMMV / Erast Fandorin

• Complete Monster:
  • Murder on the Leviathan: Marie Sanfon is a skilled, ruthless and utterly self-serving serial criminal. She encourages her lover Charles Renier, son of a deposed rajah, to look for his father's hidden treasure. When the clue to the treasure's location, a shawl, is found, Marie, with some help from Charles, murders ten people, including two children, just to steal it. Later, Charles, at her prompting, commits two more murders aboard the Leviathan whenever the shawl's safety is threatened. Finally, when Marie's attempts to frame another passenger fail, she decides to Leave No Witnesses and urges Charles to steer the ship, with a thousand passengers and crew, onto rocks. Her calm doesn't falter when Charles takes all the blame as the plan is foiled or when Charles is killed by the French detective who also wants the treasure. Marie only goes berserk when Erast Fandorin throws the shawl into the sea, proving that she cares for no one and nothing but money.
  • Special Assignments' "The Decorator": Sotsky, also known as Pakhomenko and as Jack the Ripper, is a brutal and bloodthirsty Serial Killer who claims that by dismembering ugly people he makes them prettier. He is first arrested after an ugly prostitute he hires to torture dies from his beating, and the prison time strips him of his last shreds of humanity. After his escape, Sotsky begins a series of murders and butcherings in London, before continuing in Moscow. While he feels some pity for one of the police clerks on the case, Sotsky still kills said clerk's mentally disabled sister and her nurse, and eventually murders the clerk himself when the latter gets too close to the truth.
  • The Coronation: Dr. Lind is a crime boss hiding a ruthless nature behind her kindly exterior. Dr. Lind specializes in high-profile kidnappings where she has the victim killed after getting the ransom. Infiltrating the royal family as a governess, Dr. Lind arranges the kidnapping of her charge, four-year-old Prince Mikhail, and demands the Orlov Diamond as a ransom, knowing that its loss would be a horrible diplomatic blow. When Erast Fandorin is hot on her trail, Dr. Lind has her goon provoke the Khodynka tragedy, where thousands are crushed to death in the crowds while she escapes. Dr. Lind makes it clear she has no political agenda in her workings against the Romanovs; her only motives are Greed and the joy she gets from making her crimes as heinous as possible.

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