Hippo in Mayonnaise

Of course, it’s unpleasant to learn that your colleague has come up with an insulting nickname for you—“a hippopotamus in mayonnaise”—but Tatiana Sergeyeva doesn’t have time to get upset over nonsense. A professor, Alexey Bourkin, contacted the office of a special brigade: it seems someone in the family is giving the doctor strong laxatives. The situation, at first glance, is downright stupid—most likely someone’s prank. According to the professor, in their family everyone is kind to one another, and yet he needs to bring the culprit to light. The detectives decide to send Tanya to Bourkin’s home disguised as his relative from the Far East, Louisa. Supposedly, she came to Moscow on business.

It turns out that in the professor’s house, relationships are anything but kind. The daughter-in-law, Irina, throws herself at everyone with злobi, while the second daughter-in-law—confectioner Lyuba—is the opposite: sweet to the point of nausea. And Sergeyeva begins investigating.

A specialist in searches, Timofey Volynov, arrives at Bourkin’s. After drinking the compote cooked for Alexey, he loses consciousness. Who could have poisoned him and why?

The detectives of the special brigade find out that when Alexey’s wife was a child, there was a black spot in her past. This discovery allows them to expose the culprit… But everything suddenly turns out to be completely different! The seemingly neat and logical pyramid of evidence collapses in an instant and becomes ruins.

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