About the book: 2017 / Nothing predicted that the fashionable author of detective novels Irina Snegireva would leave another masterpiece unfinished and rush to save her unlucky friend Katka. Alas, that’s exactly what happened. But who would have thought that the writer’s wildest fantasies would come to life with such ease? Now flocks of wild monkeys are running around St. Petersburg, magic stones of African tribes are paralyzing bandits, and the Queen of Spades, disguised as Captain Matrosova, throws herself into the embrasure to save the honor of her native police.…