1930. The Polish city of Lublin. A few days before the national holiday—the Day of Independence—a prominent editor of an ultra-right newspaper is brutally murdered. And this is only the first in a series of murders that shook the city… For Lublin, even from time immemorial, had been known for its tribunal—and… criminals. In the 17th century, property here belonged to a noble rogue, Ludwik Poniatowski, well known throughout the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth—though he was married to the widow of an even more famous gangster with a saber at his belt, Stanisław “the Devil” Stadnicki. Lublin is also one of the few cities besides Kraków, Lviv, Poznań, and Zhivets that has preserved the “Books of Malefactors,” which confirm the city’s criminal past starting from the 16th century.