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Serebryanyy vek. V Peterburge v «Brodyachey sobake» sobyraetsya bogema. V Odesse shumyt kafeshantan, gulyayut moryaky, anarkhysty y byndyuzhnyky. A tem vremenem russkaya etnografycheskaya ekspedytsyya otpravlyaetsya v dalekuyu Dagomeyu, v Zapadnuyu Afryku, y stalkyvaetsya v dzhunglyakh s chem-to temnym, neobyasnymym, ynfernalnym, nesushchym smert. Vernuvshykhsya yz Afryky puteshestvennykov nachynayut ubyvat odnogo za drugym. Za rassledovanye zhestokykh prestuplenyy berutsya polytseyskyy prystav Valentyn Sablyn y advokat Aleksandr Krasovskyy. Ony ydut po krovavomu sledu za bezzhalostnym monstrom, stremyas razgadat ego taynu. Kto zhe ubyytsa? Razgnevannoe drevnee bozhestvo afrykanskykh dzhungley? Yly chelovek-zver, skryvayushchyysya pod ego lychynoy?. . Tatyana Stepanova — avtor desyatkov otlychnykh detektyvov y byvshaya sotrudnytsa Press-tsentra GUMVD. Tatyana ezhednevno rabotaet s ynformatsyey o realnykh prestuplenyyakh, tak chto ee detektyvnye ystoryy maksymalno dostoverny: skazyvaetsya realnyy opyt.

The Silver Age. In St. Petersburg, the "Stray Dog" gathers bohemians. There is a noisy cafe in Odessa, sailors, anarchists and bandyugniks are walking. Meanwhile, a Russian ethnographic expedition goes to distant Dahomey, West Africa, and encounters something dark, inexplicable, infernal, and deadly in the jungle. Travelers returning from Africa are being killed one by one. Police bailiff Valentin Sablin and lawyer Alexander Krasovsky are taking over the investigation of violent crimes. They follow the blood trail of a ruthless monster, seeking to solve its mystery. Who is the murderer? The angry ancient deity of the African jungle? Or is the man-beast hiding under his guise?. . Tatiana Stepanova is the author of dozens of excellent detective stories and a former employee of the GUMVD Press Center. Tatiana works daily with information about real crimes, so that her detective stories are as reliable as possible: real experience affects.