The death of the famous writer Alan Conway put an end to the editorial career of Susan Ryland. Now she runs a hotel on the shores of the Aegean Sea, but not too successfully — there is not enough money catastrophically. Missing the hustle and bustle of London, Susan is thinking about whether to escape from this heavenly place, and it seems that fate itself throws her a chance. The English couple turn to Ryeland for help, promising to pay well. Their daughter disappeared, having managed to confess to her parents that she had found the key to solving a bloody crime committed eight years ago in Suffolk in the pages of Conway's detective novel... The editor of this book series, it turns out, was Susan. Will she be able to unravel the intricacies of the author's thought? Miss Ryland urgently goes to England, experiencing the real excitement of a detective, and it does not immediately occur to her that it is impossible to stir up the secrets of the past with impunity. But this becomes obvious when a deadly danger looms over her...A novel within a novel, a literary game full of riddles and hoaxes. For the first time in Russian!