A Sore Subject

What is Moscow of the 22nd century like? And what if around you there’s a magical world where computers and amulets, email and magical messengers, portals and airships coexist more or less peacefully? The heaviest illnesses are treated by elf healers, the biggest banks in the world—and in the Tsardom of Rus’ as well—belong to dwarves, and the Keepers of libraries are even made up of incomprehensible creatures…
Private detective Aleksey Vereshchagin lives and works in this magical Moscow. He has a home, sons, a favorite job, friends, a household spirit… Everything is there. Only for the last two weeks there’s been no peace—because one morning Alex’s tooth started hurting. Only in the dentist’s office, instead of a kind doctor, he found a fresh corpse. And a new client can’t wait until the detective solves his problem. And the investigation begins—pulling along, like a snowball, new incidents, circumstances, and clues.