On a train where MIA Colonel Gurov was returning from a business trip, a passenger, Oleg Dymov, caused a drunken brawl. Gurov had to intervene and restore order. The conductor explained that the passenger’s behavior was caused by grief that had overtaken him: in the same carriage, there was a coffin with the body of his deceased wife. The next morning it turned out that Dymov was gone, and in his compartment there were traces of a struggle and blood. Realizing that a crime had occurred on the train, Gurov contacts the police department of one of the stations along the route. This saves him from his certain death: at the moment of his conversation with the duty officer in the carriage where Gurov was traveling, an explosion occurs…
Nikolay Leonov, in the past an investigator for the MUR, knew firsthand how the most tangled criminal cases are solved. The classic series “Black Cat” includes more than 200 books, published in tens of millions of copies.