About the book: 2004 / For the sake of another sensation, journalists are ready to go through fire, water and copper pipes. One of the employees of the popular Flirt magazine, for the sake of a fashionable interview, climbed all the way into the exotic rooms of the Bombay Hotel, not the safest place in the city. And he himself didn’t notice how he fell into a cleverly placed net. The mysterious stranger, whom he had been following so carefully, is killed, and he, a well-known journalist throughout the capital, is accused of murder! The police are happy to put behind bars the newspaperman who always gets under his feet. Only Samson Shalopaev, a young brilliant journalist who has already solved several cases, can help. And a fellow writer rushes to the rescue!