About the book: 1995 / This book includes three stories by Svetlana Bestuzheva-Lada, a journalist for the weekly "Family": "The Woman in Black", " Russian Cinderella" and "Cursed Apartment". Although they are different in genre - detective, melodrama and domestic drama - they are united by an essential detail: all of these works were created on a documentary basis, they all happened to real people, and there was almost nothing to speculate on. It is known that life presents us with stories that no author can invent. So, these stories are about our Russian existence. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, more and more often - alas! - criminal. In all three there is a finely twisted, sometimes even adventurous intrigue, good humor and the absolute unpredictability of the ending. Everything is like in life. Drawings - P. Ivashchenko.