YMMV / Special Assignments

• Complete Monster: Sotsky, from "The Decorator", 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.
• Magnificent Bastard ("The Jack of Spades"): Momus is an extremely charming, clever, creative conman and Master of Disguise. He sets up grand, daring projects such as a fake bank or a fake lottery, going as far as to advertise in a police newspaper. Whenever Erast Fandorin and the police seem to catch him red-handed, Momus calmly says they have no actual proof of his involvement in the cons. Finally, after Momus's latest scheme helps Fandorin catch a cruel and dishonest general, Momus is Let Off by the Detective, but his beloved partner Mimi is arrested and tried for fraud. Disguising himself as a lawyer, Momus makes sure she gets acquitted, in addition, exposing the prosecution counsel as corrupt. Together with Mimi, Momus leaves Moscow in triumph.