A stage play with a criminal plot from the queen of ironic detective stories, Daria Dontsova!
A new investigation literally showed up at Evlampiya Romanova’s doorstep—it’s urgently needed to figure out the strange death of a neighbor. No, surely Nadezhda Vladimirovna Reutova couldn’t have committed suicide— it isn’t her character; besides, the scene is arranged far too deliberately. It’s as if someone staged a criminal plot play, and the set for it is the house where Lampa and her husband Max Wolf recently moved. And just when the detectives haven’t had time to deal with one death, another neighbor dies. The truth is, he rented out his apartment, but the car that hit him clearly wasn’t an accident. So who could have gotten in the way so badly—the pensioner and the gardener?
A complicated case, and in the meantime Lampa has a new family member: a creature unknown to science—a cat-dog named Henrietta Karlovna Sidorova…