What if a poor student chopped not the old moneylender, but Baba Yaga with an axe? How do you handle such an investigation when, in the forest, power is divided among the forest spirits and water folk, and in the capital, among people, dissatisfaction with the rule of the нечисть is brewing? And could an ordinary young man have killed the strongest witch in Kasyey’s realm? Or was he just set up? An engrossing detective—an “retelling” of Dostoevsky’s classic plot about a world where fairy-tale beings live alongside people, but very real crimes are committed. The book includes musical inserts: Music by Audionautix.com