About the book: year / Summer 1879. Not only merchants and industrialists, but also criminals of all stripes come to the famous Nizhny Novgorod fair from all over the Russian Empire - the richest fair attracts swindlers, thieves, murderers like a magnet... Already the day before its opening, the first corpse was discovered. A page from the precious manuscript of Archpriest Avvakum was found in the heel of an unknown person, which is being hunted by both schismatics and robbers from the gang of the Axis Murderer. The best police forces are deployed to search for the criminals, but the case turns out to be incredibly complex, it cannot be solved, and the brutal murders continue... Contents: 1. Testament of Habakkuk2. Hunt for the king3. Between Amur and Neva4. Chronicles of detective (collection)5. Shot on Bolshaya Morskaya6. Bullet from the Caucasus7. The case of the Varnavinsky maniac8. Warsaw secrets