About the book: 1982 / The detective story by N. Oganesov "The Unlikely Double" was first published in 1982 in the Smena magazine. Four years later, a revised and expanded version of the story was published in the publishing house "Young Guard" under the title "Two from the Past".... On January 19, a corpse was discovered in a one-story outbuilding on Pervomaiskaya Street: a watchman at a regional vegetable warehouse died as a result of domestic gas poisoning. that day, investigator Skargin did not yet suspect that this death was the logical conclusion of the events of the war years, and that the reasons for the murder were directly related to the occupation of the city in 1942…