By the will of fate, I’m—Evlampiya Romanova—pulled into another investigation of a mysterious murder of a neighbor from the dacha of academician Slavin. They killed him in the office of the Academy of Higher Education. He was there alone. And first he was shot, and then, after he was already dead, he was stabbed with a knife. They say Slavin was loved by everyone. Even his numerous wives and children lived with him under the same roof. His daughter, Rebecca, asks me to find her father’s killer—she thinks it must be someone close to him, since only they knew about the secret passage into his office. I agreed to help, not realizing what I was getting into… And then—right then—Slavin’s last wife dies under the wheels of the commuter train: the beauty Anzhelika…