Весы Фемиды

Drevnie greki pochitali bogini͡u Femidu, vtorui͡u suprugu Zevsa, kak bli͡ustitelʹnit͡su pori͡adka, nravstvennykh osnov i spravedlivosti. Ona olit͡setvori͡ala soboĭ pravosudie, nepodkupnostʹ i bespristrastnostʹ. Izobrazhali ee vsegda s vesami v ruke - merilom sootnoshenii͡a dobrykh i zlykh postupkov…Nadezhda Lebedeva i ee podruga, izvestnai͡a pisatelʹnit͡sa detektivnykh romanov Marii͡a Rybnikova, prishli v i͡uridicheskui͡u kontoru, chtoby nachatʹ delo o plagiate. V vestibi͡ule, u mramornoĭ lestnit͡sy, oni uvideli statui͡u Femidy, no… bez znamenitykh vesov! Soglasno legende, vesy imenno ėtoĭ statui pomogali vyigratʹ li͡uboe, dazhe samoe beznadëzhnoe delo, i vot teperʹ oni tainstvennym obrazom ischezli. Tak podrugi okazalisʹ vti͡anuty v vodovorot iskusno zakruchennykh intrig. I prezhde, chem oni dobralisʹ do razgadki, im prishlosʹ rasputatʹ klubok ne menee zagadochnykh prestupleniĭ.

The ancient Greeks revered the goddess Themis, the second wife of Zeus, as the guardian of order, moral principles and justice. She represented justice, integrity, and impartiality. She was always depicted with scales in her hand, a measure of the ratio of good and evil deeds.…Nadezhda Lebedeva and her friend, the famous writer of detective novels Maria Rybnikova, came to a law office to start a plagiarism case. In the lobby, by the marble staircase, they saw a statue of Themis, but... without the famous scales! According to legend, the scales of this particular statue helped to win any, even the most hopeless case, and now they have mysteriously disappeared. So the friends were drawn into a whirlpool of artfully twisted intrigues. And before they got to the solution, they had to unravel a tangle of equally mysterious crimes.