Death does not seek open doors...

Grigory Stasko, a traveling salesman, was killed in a furnished room in the Moscow suburb of Dmitrov. Death occurred from a blow to the temple with brass knuckles, and the room was locked from the inside and the windows were closed. At the time of arrival, the guest had two baskets of expensive pocket watches and a substantial amount of money, which then disappeared. The case was assigned to the judicial investigator Ivan Fedorovich Volovtsov. A petty bourgeois Katz turns out to be under suspicion, who had previously threatened to kill Stasko for her offended husband. In addition, her brother managed to pay at a nearby brothel with a watch from the luggage of the murdered salesman. It seems the crime scene is clear… But Volovtsov is plagued by doubts. And not by chance: suddenly, a new suspect appears in the case.…

A historical crime novel about the beginning of the last century. The author immerses himself in the atmosphere of that time so fascinatingly that we literally hear the rumble of the pavement, the noise of the city bazaar, the ringing of bells and the shrill whistles of the policemen.…