About the book: 2023 / A marriage swindler is operating in a large southern city. He marries rich women over and over again, after which he takes their property and immediately abandons his victims. It would seem that there was no crime, but only until the deceived wives began... to die under strange circumstances. Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Lev Gurov is trying to find out whether an insidious gigolo is involved in these deaths. However, at the last moment, Gurov’s plan unexpectedly collapses. A series of new tragic events confirms the detective’s assumption: in this case, the most dangerous is yet to come... Nikolai Leonov, a former MUR investigator, knew firsthand how the most complicated criminal cases are solved. Therefore, each of his books is a true, exciting story with unpredictable intrigue and an unexpected ending. The main character of these books, Colonel Lev Gurov, is a high-class detective, moreover, with a lot of positive human qualities. He is respected by his friends, feared by his enemies and loved by women. He is a real domestic superman. Novels about Lev Gurov have invariably attracted fans of Russian detective stories for forty years now. The classic “Black Cat” series includes more than 200 books, with tens of millions of copies sold..