Under very mysterious circumstances, reporter Cheptokral’sky is murdered. From the outside, everything points to a tragedy caused by romantic passion, but Ardova is bothered by the details. Exactly those details lead to the exposure of a carefully planned international conspiracy, for which an ingenious criminal is willing not only to kill the detective himself, but also to drag an entire empire into war. To destroy the criminal plan, Ilya Alekseyevich must outplay the gendarmerie administration, which has seriously believed in the inevitability of the war that newspapers have been talking about for a whole week.
Ilya Ardov is the main hero of a series of retro-detective novels. Ilya Alekseyevich has a unique ability to remember everything he has ever seen, heard, or read. With the help of his friend, the forensic expert Zharkov, the young detective manages to invent his own method of investigation, based on the ability to mentally return to the crime scene in order to find clues that were previously overlooked. This skill quickly makes Ardov a star of criminal investigation in late 19th-century St. Petersburg.
Under very mysterious circumstances, reporter Cheptokral’sky is murdered… [text repeats in the original]
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