"Petelnikov watched the hurriedly writing investigator; the forensic expert who was crouching, leaning forward on his stomach, and walking on all fours; and Leden tsov, who peered around the apartment with an experienced look; and the silent witnesses… He looked at dozens of things he had seen before—not hundreds, was it?—and accepted everything using only his eyes, because his mind had turned into memory, sorting through those same dozens of past thefts and looking for something new. But today’s theft seemed so faceless that it didn’t fit into any pattern—or, on the contrary, it could be attached to any."
Captain Petelnikov and Lieutenant Leden tsov try to make sense of a series of strange thefts and catch the “strange” thief…