The Scarlet Cluster of Tourmaline

Restorer Elena Besedina was looking forward to a new, interesting job restoring an old manor house right in the city center, commissioned by the well-known benefactor Petr Bespalov. But when everything had already been agreed upon, he was murdered in that very house! Elena, who found the body, was shaken; only meeting the construction company manager, Dmitry Makarov, helped her get through this terrible situation. Bespalov’s widow decided not to shut down the project in her husband’s memory, and Elena found herself back in that ill-fated house. Something wouldn’t let her go, forcing her to examine the surviving details more carefully—especially the old stoves with bas-reliefs...