By the will of fate, I—Evlampia Romanova—have once again been pulled into investigating the mysterious murder of a neighbor from the dacha of academician Slavins. They killed him in the office of the Academy of Higher Education. He was there alone. First, they shot him—then, once he was already dead, they stabbed him with a knife. They say everyone loved Slavins. Even his many wives and children lived with him under the same roof. His daughter Rebecca asks me to find her father’s murderer—she thinks it must be someone close to them. After all, only family knew about the secret passage into his office. I agreed to help without realizing what I was getting into… And then, suddenly, the last wife of Slavins dies under the wheels of an electric train—the beauty Angelika…