About the book: 1972 / The collection includes three detective stories. Bulgarian writer P. Vezhinov talks about the investigation of three murders in a small Bulgarian village, which became an arena of political struggle (“Bats appear at night”); French writers Boileau and Narcejac reveal the limited world of the bourgeois man in the street (“She Who Wasn’t”); in the novel by the English writer John Dixon Carr “The Emperor's Snuff Box”, the atmosphere of a French resort and its inhabitants are described - people who are financially prosperous, but corrupted and devastated.