An Unknown Fairy Tale by Andersen

When Dasha went to apply for a job, she didn’t expect that her future boss would turn out to be her old acquaintance, Efim. And she definitely wasn’t planning to become a witness to a murder—during their lunch with Efim, another applicant for the position of secretary died right in the reception.

One night Efim called Dasha and suggested they try to get their feelings back—but he never made it to her home. He came to his senses in a city dump. He remembered nothing—he only knew this: everything was due to a patent for an invention that he didn’t manage to register. The scientist Elvira Steklova recorded the data of her discovery in the first Russian edition of Andersen’s fairy tales and sent it to Efim, but the package never reached him—and the inventor herself died under mysterious circumstances. Now, to find the book, someone will have to decipher the plots of the famous stories by the great Danish storyteller and understand where the clues lead…