Ivan Ivanovich Lūbenko is a modern detective writer who combines the work of an advocate with writing. The plots of his works are complex, but very plausible, and they keep the reader’s interest until the very end.
Listen to this retro-detective story that well conveys the atmosphere of the era after the Russo-Japanese War and the provincial flavor of a southern Russian city.
1907. Stavropol. After retiring from service following a severe injury suffered while carrying out a secret mission in the Middle East, a former official from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs—Klim Panteleyevich Ardashev—relocates from Petersburg to the provinces.
The calm life of the newly minted attorney-sibarite is unexpectedly interrupted by a series of loud crimes that, at first glance, are not connected: in a train compartment on the Moscow–Stavropol line, the bodies of shot French jewelers are discovered. A few days later, the businessman Solomon Zhikh comes to Ardashev and asks to find… his future killers. Soon, the visitor is found murdered in a city garden. The tragic chain does not end there. The police is at a loss. The investigation is taken up by sworn attorney Klim Ardashev…