About the book: 1991 / In an ordinary room in the most ordinary house of a quiet, drowsy Zurich, the most incredible, almost implausible passions were seething: blood and filth, manic vanity, exorbitant greed were in the way with envy, revenge, thirst for destruction. All this was here, and at the same time no one killed anyone - just the methodical Swiss were compiling another volume of the encyclopedia of the most sensational crimes. We will walk through the pages of this unique publication, look into the dark abyss of the human soul “not for the sake of curiosity, but for instruction.” What kind of teaching could there be, you ask in surprise. What can you learn from looking beyond the edge? Don't rush! We took one figure - a man who forged paintings - and put him in the power of document and fiction, in the hands of a journalist and writer, and what came out of this combination is for you to judge.