I, Evlampia Romanova, can never bring myself to refuse people!
My old friend Volodya Kostin asked me to shelter his sister-in-law Eugénie. His wife’s sister had remained unmarried for too long, turned to a matchmaker, and he advised her to change both her name and her apartment. So Zhenya became Eugénie, landed in our house, and I had to accompany her to a party where she was supposedly going to meet her destiny!
Eugénie really did meet a gentleman and sped away with him into the bright distance... The man who carried off the beauty turned out to be familiar to me — quite recently I had seen him at a crime scene!..
An actor, Veniamin Podolsky, came to our detective agency: threatening letters had been planted for him. So I had to “work” as a concierge in his building. Today Podolsky asked me to walk him to a café, but when we were crossing the street, someone shot my charge! One stray bullet hit a random female passerby, but some suspicious type picked up her body and drove away with it. It was he who charmed Eugénie at the party, and I was unable to stop him!