About the book: 2018 / In the new collection of stories by Ivan Pogonin, “The Secret of Saint Elzbieta”, the story about the everyday life of the Russian police and the adventures of the detective warden Osip Tarakanov continues. In 1912, Tarakanov worked in Moscow and the Moscow province, where he investigated a series of daring robbery attacks. And in 1914, fate throws him very far from his native place... The war begins, and Tarakanov, who was about to resign, decides to continue his service and heads the detective department in Lvov. And the very first serious investigation baffles him. Under the walls of the newly built church of St. Elzbieta, the disfigured body of a girl is found, whom the local bailiff considers a suicide. But Tarakanov has a different opinion. While investigating this crime, he finds out the name of the killer, but does not have time to report it.…