A collection of short stories from a master Russian detective and an expert in criminology.- 26 short stories based on the writer's memoirs and telling about the real cases that he, as an investigator, conducted at the dawn of his career, back in Soviet times. The reader will come face to face with the realities of that time, farts and speculators, clandestine abortions, and so on.- Danil Koretsky is a writer, former investigator of the prosecutor's office, a criminologist and one of the best—selling Russian authors. Several of his books have been adapted into films, including the novel "Antikiller", which became a blockbuster (directed by Egor Konchalovsky, starring Gosha Kutsenko).