About the book: 1933 / On the fourth page of the newspaper he noticed the headline: “Someone is scattering nails on the roads in the Hyde Park area.” Marr squinted and I read intently through the chronicle, which reported that the mysterious "nail spreader," who had been scattering large roofing nails in various streets of the city during the past week, had again begun scattering nails in the Hyde Park area. A motorist reported to the police that he noticed a man with a broom on the street in the Hyde Park area, who was sweeping roofing nails from the road. Since the motorist did not see any car nearby, he concluded that the man with the broom was one of the inhabitants of the houses located in the area, who, on his own initiative, decided to clear the road of nails scattered on it. Since no complaints were received to the police, then the police were not particularly zealous in investigating these hooligan antics.