About the book: year / Another book by the legendary Leonov-Makeev tandem. Cases of unusual crimes have become more frequent in Moscow. Someone famously deceived the rich, taking away large sums of money from them. At the same time, the victims themselves gladly paid for a simple cobblestone passed off as a piece of a real meteorite, or for a mongrel puppy with a “cool pedigree.” Each time it was not simple extortion, but a real performance that inspired complete trust. Colonels Gurov and Kryachko determined that the same pair of virtuosos was involved in the case - a man and a woman. Identifying scammers is a matter of technique. A real stupor arose among the detectives after they found out what forced the attackers to take the path of crime... Nikolai Leonov, a former investigator of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, 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..