About the book: 2024 / The legendary detective tandem Leonov - Makeev. Millionaire Peter Vershinin is lucky in everything: he has a profitable business, a young beautiful wife, reliable friends , a rare art gallery in his own mansion near Sochi. Unexpectedly, a black streak comes for the millionaire. There is a fire in the estate, part of the collection dies, an unknown person shoots through the window of the house, attempting to kill the businessman’s wife. Vershinin invites MVD Colonel Gurov to stay with him and help identify the villain. Gurov suspects everyone who lives in the house: artists, a businessman - Vershinin's friend, security guards, the millionaire's wife, his son and daughter... However, the detective has no direct evidence. Everything changes when one day, while out for a walk, Gurov almost dies in a trap...Nikolai Leonov, a former MUR investigator, 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..