How could you possibly celebrate an anniversary badly—especially among friends—and even at a new dacha in the woods? Of course you can’t! Guests and hosts ate, drank, made toasts, told jokes, chatted, smoked, sang, put on records, danced, and had fun as best they could. But alas, the party ended in the most horrible way. The fun was cut short when the anniversary man—the owner of the house—was found dead. At night, it’s unlikely that any outsider would wander into a lonely forest hamlet, so the murderer must be among the people present.