Samara, 1890... Mysterious events occur in the city’s bookstores—ending in people’s deaths. What is it? Accidents? Murders? What connects these victims, seemingly completely different in age and social standing? Suspicion falls on a young woman who unexpectedly disappears. The police follow a false trail and clearly don’t seem eager to find the real killer.
And then an amateur detective— a law student from Kazan University, only 20 years old—takes up the investigation...