A Phantom House as a Dowry

11 hrs. 27 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Tatyana Ustinova

Narrator Yulia Stepanova

Description

But all of this really happened in an old mansion on Chistye Prudy, which at some point stopped appearing in any registers. One March Saturday morning, the body of the neighbor literally fell on two friends, Lipa and Lusinda, who lived in the haunted house. And the oddities didn’t end there: the dead man was tightly wrapped in wires—just a little more, and it could have blown up. A new tenant, Pavel Dobrovolsky, helped avert disaster: he managed to extinguish the explosive threat and prevented the tragedy from turning into a mass casualty event.

But the “extreme” was only gaining momentum. The number of the dead grew rapidly: the Paramonovs’ couple was no more, Aunt Verochka barely didn’t suffocate from gas, and now danger was hanging over the others. Pavel begins to suspect almost all the residents of the phantom house—except for Olympiada. Together with her, he carries out an investigation, and at the same time he gets pulled ever deeper into an unexpected romance…

Tatyana Ustinova is one of the most in-demand authors of contemporary Russian prose, a winner of two “Electronic Letter” awards and a TЭФИ laureate in the category “Screenwriter for a TV film.” She is called “the first among the best”—and it’s not just a successful phrase: behind it are dozens of novels, successful adaptations for film and television, and the enduring love of many readers.

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