Thirty-three misfortunes have fallen on Ivan Pavlovich Podushkin’s head. Not only did his landlady suddenly arrive at his apartment with all her belongings—Nikoletta quarreled with her husband. As it turns out, to appease her you can only present her with a separate mansion the size of a football field. On top of that, Max Voronov, his best friend, suddenly collapsed with a stroke, barely managing to ask for help for his detective friend. And the case turned out to be very tangled: a girl’s corpse has been found, and it’s completely unclear who could have killed her and why—faking the suicide. The private detective has to rush around Moscow and then go to the province. But what do diamonds of questionable origin have to do with it? Ira Vilkina, a former orphanage girl, was as poor as a church mouse! Or wasn’t she?..