No wonder wise people warn: “Beware of your wishes—they do come true.” On New Year’s Eve, right when the clock struck midnight, I wrote on a piece of paper: “I want to be out of town as quickly as possible.” Then I swallowed the scrap and washed it down with champagne… And—what a miracle!—our whole family ended up in a country cottage. Only I, Yevlampiya Romanova, didn’t get to rejoice for long: I had to immediately get down to… investigating a murder.
Poor Vera died by mistake—people meant to poison her with a blueberry pie… Was it me? For what? Why? And besides, the poison in the settlement with the amusing name “Mole” had already been used; then several people died. I must figure everything out, and in the meantime I got a chance to show my acting talent—in the kindergarten my adopted daughter Kisa attends—they offered me a role… as an elephant!