Want me to tell a wild story? I’m Evlampiya Romanova—an utter fool of a woman—and I agreed to fly with a neighbor—a businessman—to Thailand. He had a business partner who got sick. There I nearly died from the heat, and I also had to bring back two live baby crocodiles. They were ordered by Professor Baratyansky for his scientific experiments. When we arrived in Moscow, the neighbor broke his leg, and it was me who had to take the alligators to the professor’s home. But there, instead of Baratyansky, I found his corpse with a hole in his forehead. On suspicion of the murder, they arrested the lover of his young wife Irochka. She hired me to investigate the case, because she didn’t believe in the lover’s guilt. In the course of it, I learned a lot of unpleasant things about the professor’s family. In particular, that his deceased first wife during the blockade bought antique precious items, exchanging them for stolen food. Maybe someone is taking revenge on the professor, thinking he was involved? But right there, in front of me, they killed Irochka! So what am I supposed to do now?..