The Clock with a Secret

Trouble fell on Fyodor on the eve of New Year like from a cornucopia. First, a quarrel with his beloved wife—so severe as it had never been during all sixteen years of their life together. Then—money stolen from the office safe. And upon closer inspection it turned out the safe wasn’t broken into, but opened carefully with a key.

Who could have prepared this New Year’s “gift” for his colleagues—Fyodor will have to find out, though he has very little time to investigate the crime, because the calendar already shows December 31.