Крысиный король

Romany o nastoi͡ashchikh geroi͡akh svoeĭ ėpokhi - sotrudnikakh sovetskoĭ milit͡sii, li͡udi͡akh, dli͡a kotorykh sluzhebnyĭ podvig - obydennoe delo. Leto 1966 goda. Udarom po golove ubit gruzchik univermaga I͡Uriĭ Vadimchenko. Razbrosannye v bespori͡adke veshchi, vydvinutye i͡ashchiki stola, raskrytyĭ shkaf - prestupniki i͡avno chto-to iskali v kvartire ubitogo. No chto moglo bytʹ t͡sennogo u obychnogo vypivokhi, kotoryĭ ranee neodnokratno privlekalsi͡a za khuliganstvo? Podpolkovnik milit͡sii Andreĭ Plotnikov stroit razlichnye predpolozhenii͡a, poka ne nakhodit na meste prestuplenii͡a obychnye s vidu banki "Zavtrak turista". Soderzhimoe odnoĭ iz nikh bukvalʹno oshelomilo opytnykh syshchikov…Ėto bylo sovsem nedavno. Kogda chestʹ i bezzavetnai͡a predannostʹ opasnoĭ professii byli glavnymi i obi͡azatelʹnymi kachestvami sovetskikh milit͡sionerov…

Novels about the real heroes of their era — Soviet police officers, people for whom feats of office are commonplace. Summer of 1966. Yuri Vadimchenko, a loader at the department store, was killed by a blow to the head. Things scattered in disarray, drawers pulled out, an open closet — the criminals were clearly looking for something in the apartment of the murdered man. But what could be valuable from an ordinary drinker who had previously been repeatedly involved in hooliganism? Police Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Plotnikov makes various assumptions until he finds the usual Tourist's Breakfast cans at the crime scene. The contents of one of them literally stunned the experienced detectives…It was quite recently. When honor and selfless devotion to a dangerous profession were the main and obligatory qualities of Soviet policemen…