About the book: 2011 / A guest’s daughter disappears in a respectable boarding house. It disappears and comes back again. And no one can say where the girl was or what happened to her. Except for one person who is already preparing a new crime. A wealthy old man played a cruel joke on his family. Who is the victim and who is the monster? It is not so easy to answer this question, because every closet keeps its skeletons behind tightly closed doors, and not a single member of a wealthy family is eager to open them. Detective Sergei Babkin, summoned to the boarding house to investigate a strange case, little by little unwinds the tangled tangle of intrigue and passion. A thread leads him to a crime twenty years ago. Will he be able to stop the impending murder when the investigation becomes dangerous for himself? Masterly detective intrigue, love and dedication, friendship and betrayal, the story of Cinderella, revealing itself from an unexpected side - all this is in the new novel by Elena Mikhalkova “Cinderella and the Dragon”. Which one is hiding nearby??