About the book: 1991 / Joe Alex is the pseudonym of the famous Polish historian Maciej Slomczynski, for whom the development of detective stories became a kind of second profession. The hero of his novels, a writer and amateur detective, is also named Joe Alex. The death of General Somerville, in whose house there was a unique collection of ancient Indian sculpture, seems mysterious to everyone. The investigation goes down the wrong path, but the author of popular detective novels, who accidentally ended up on the general's estate, finds the true killer with the help of logical thinking and... Kipling's poems.