Aniskin and the Rural Gangsters

“No Passaran” is not some backwater village—it’s a large state farm cooperative, and things here are born not small. Just when the new local precinct officer, school honorsman from the police academy Kostya Aniskin, arrived from the district, such a murder happened that Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot could relax. A man’s body in the bushes, and even with an ear torn off. Well, whose ear, at least, is clear. But who killed him? In addition, a new body appeared in the bushes—this time a female one. And again, the ear...
Kostya is a city man, he doesn’t know the local ways, but he feels it: they’re messing with him, and the investigation is stuck. All right, he’ll still show them the sky full of diamonds—Kuzyka’s mother—and a goat’s face.