About the book: 2024 / The legendary detective tandem Leonov - Makeev. “Help, he killed them all!” - such an unusual message came to the phone of the orphanage teacher from her former ward Toni. Several years ago, the girl was adopted by the Shishkovsky couple. Their son Elizar had died shortly before under strange circumstances... The message turned out to be true - the couple were brutally murdered at home on that very day. Tonya disappeared without a trace. Colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Gurov and Kryachko receive from a video surveillance camera an image of a suspicious guy who, a few minutes before the murder, entered the entrance of the house where the victims lived. It was not possible to find out how he got out and whether there was a girl with him. To the surprise of the detectives, one of the witnesses identified the stranger as... the long-dead Elizar... 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..