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V odnoy yz ryzhskykh kvartyr nayden trup khozyayky – pozhyloy zhenshchyny Alydy Grube, obezobrazhennyy sernoy kyslotoy. Vse ulyky ukazyvayut na byvshuyu kvartyrantku ubytoy, moloduyu devushku Zentu. Alyby u nee net, zato v sumke ymeyutsya dragotsennosty pogybshey khozyayky. Odnako prokuror ne podpysyvaet obvynytelnoe zaklyuchenye: v dele ne vse dokazano, y vsyo ne tak prosto, kak kazhetsya na pervyy vzglyad. Sledovatelyam prykhodytsya yskat novye puty v rassledovanyy etogo neprostogo prestuplenyya. Nas zhdet tselyy kaskad neozhydannykh povorotov. Sled vedet v burzhuaznoe proshloe Latvyy… V delo vstupaet advokat Robezhnyek, kotoryy brosaetsya v avantyury, chtoby opravdat Zentu y nayty nastoyashchykh prestupnykov. Po etoy ostroumnoy detektyvnoy povesty mozhno yzuchat byt sovetskoy Prybaltyky. Chytayte klassycheskyy retro-detektyv – klassyku zhanra!

The corpse of the owner, an elderly woman named Alida Grube, disfigured by sulfuric acid, was found in one of the Riga apartments. All the evidence points to the murdered woman's former tenant, a young girl named Zenta. She has no alibi, but there are jewels of the deceased owner in the bag. However, the prosecutor does not sign the indictment: not everything has been proven in the case, and everything is not as simple as it seems at first glance. Investigators have to look for new ways to investigate this complex crime. A cascade of unexpected turns awaits us. The trail leads back to Latvia's bourgeois past… Lawyer Robezhniek steps in, who rushes into adventures to exonerate Zenta and find the real criminals. Based on this witty detective story, you can study the life of the Soviet Baltic States. Read the classic retro detective – classics of the genre!