About the book: 2001 / In order for a detective story to turn from primitive tram fiction into real Literature, at least three things are needed: a strong plot with an unexpected outcome, good language and “living” characters. All these components are fully present in the detective stories of Elena Basmanova - and even more: reading her novels, you seem to be immersed in the atmosphere of that time, sitting at the same table with sweet and gallant heroes, participating in the investigation... In a word, before you - a real detective... Against the backdrop of the International Congress of Criminologists taking place in September 1902 in St. Petersburg, events unfold, in the center of which is the restless Mura Muromtseva. The sharp mind of a born detective allows her to lift the veil on the next Mystery of the Century...