About the book: 2007 / Moscow in the mid-seventeenth century - a whole world where there is everything in abundance: holidays, secrets, ardent love, and the treachery of rivals, and courage and resourcefulness. The dashing grooms from the Argamachi stables - Timofey, Bogdash, Semeyka and Danila - following the orders of the clerk of the Order of Secret Affairs Bashmakov, are looking for a mysterious wooden letter. As always, they have rivals - the clerks of the Zemsky Prikaz. Ambushes and chases, military tricks and fatal mistakes, dead bodies and cunning lovers, the secrets of fist fighters and the art of buffoons - everything is intertwined around literacy. What kind of curiosity is this? Who does it belong to? A traitor selling the secrets of the Order of Secret Affairs? Scribes collecting rarities? Or people who keep the long-standing behests of their ancestors? The cycle of historical detective stories by the famous Riga writer Dalia Truskinovskaya about the sovereign’s grooms continues with the novel “Wooden Letter”, where we again meet the heroes of “The Enchanted Soul” and “Bloody Pearls”».