The novel “The Case of the Greedy Barbarian” opens a cycle of investigations by brilliant detectives—Bagatur Lobo and Bogdan Rukhovich Ouyantsev-Syu. Their first joint case caught them in the northern capital of the flourishing state of Ordus—the great city of Nevskiy Alexandria, where high bridges span the Neva River. From the patriarchate’s treasury a shrine has been stolen— the breast cross of Bishop and Great Martyr Sysoy, in civilian life Yeldai-Burday Noyon, the enlightener of the Vallons. An unheard-of crime—and, as if on purpose, there isn’t a single clue, and the motives of the robbers are unclear.