About the book: 2002 / St. Petersburg is shocked by a mysterious and terrible crime. The corpse of an unknown man was found in a rented apartment, his face covered in ink, his body strewn with scraps of Conan Doyle’s book “The Car of John the Baptist.” The cause of death has not been established. The investigation into the case begins with the insightful Virchow. At this time, the widow of the publisher Filippova, whose husband died six months ago under the same strange circumstances, contacts the detective agency of Mura Muromtseva... Who will get to the truth faster - the experienced Virchov or the resourceful Mura?