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NOT SAYING GOODBYE by Boris Akunin, tr Andrew Bromfield 410pp, W&N, £20, ebook £10.99 So, farewell then, Erast Petrovich Fandorin, Boris Akunin's vain, stammering, Quixotic sleuth, perhaps the most widely loved fictional detective of our time. It's nearly a decade since I first read the obsequies on Fandorin in this publication, but since then the supposedly retired hero has returned to make positively final appearances with Sinatra-esque regularity; and as the books have sold 40million copies in Russia alone,...