Russian police investigating after man is shot dead by 007-style gun disguised as a pen

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Russian police are investigating the mysterious death of a man shot dead by a lethal 007-style gun disguised as a pen.

Alexei Tolmachev, 35, from Tambov, was found slumped on the floor at his friend's office in Moscow, killed by a shot to his right temple.

Beside him was the pen - in fact a deadly weapon.

'On the floor was found a man, all in blood,' said a police report.

'His head was destroyed by the bullet.'

Initial reports suggest the man - alone in the offices of a housing services company - shot himself, though it was unclear if the weapon, the kind that the KGB might have used in the Cold War, was his own or something he found by chance.