You could just exclaim: “Lord, spare me from my relatives—and with my enemies, I’ll handle it myself!” Ivan Podushkin has never had to act as an interior specialist before. But such careful cover was justified. Writer Konstantin Amaretti, who invited the detective to his estate, didn’t want his mother and younger brother to find out who Podushkin really was and why he had appeared here.
And the reason for the visit was serious: since recently, Amaretti had been receiving anonymous threatening letters, and he had every reason to believe that the author of these “creations” was one of his own relatives. But soon the private detective had to deal with a much more serious crime! During his conversation with Konstantin, a wild scream came from the library. The house’s occupants who rushed in—and Podushkin—found the body of poor Inessa, the unlucky housekeeper, with her head twisted in a strange way. But what shocked Ivan most was the reaction of the estate’s owner. For some reason, he flatly refused to call the police…