About the book: 2006 / For the first time in Russian - an outstanding historical detective, winner of the Edgar Award for the best debut in 2000. Benjamin Weaver is a former famous boxer, and now private detective - looking for missing things and collecting debts for his aristocratic clients in the imperial capital - London. Another customer instructs him to investigate the murder of his own father, a stockbroker with whom Weaver had not communicated for ten years. A chain of evidence forces him to rush between gambling houses and coffee houses, aristocratic living rooms and brothels, getting on the trail of a large-scale conspiracy that could shake the foundations of the empire itself, and the conspirators hidden in the shadows are by no means inclined to stand on ceremony with unnecessary witnesses…