About the book: 2004 / Andrey Obyedkov is attracted to the anecdote, as it should, by its accuracy, sharpness, topicality, and brevity. From collecting, he imperceptibly moves on to creating humorous stories from police life and finds with them his own definition of “police tales.” And now many metropolitan newspapers are vying with each other to print these obedkovsky tales: “Literary Russia”, “Patriot”, “Pravda Rossii”, the magazines “Police”, “Zheglov and Sharapov” and even the famous “Crocodile”».