The fashionable ski resort of Val de Neige is the safest place in the Union of Kingdoms. Here, on ski slopes, celebrities and clerks meet—aristocrats and athletes, financiers and spendthrifts. Here the hotels shine with lights, music plays, and great chefs create miracles. Serious crimes never happen… That’s why, when a corpse is found in the most luxurious hotel of the resort, the head of the city guard asks for help from a private detective who came for vacation from Moscow—Aleksey Vereshchagin…