A well-known city antiques dealer is found sitting in his own chair with a frozen smile on his face and a narrow fatal wound in his chest. After that, they discover his friend—a painter—dead as well. And almost the very next day, in different ends of the city, a respectable gentleman and two unfortunate homeless men die.
The only connecting link in the chain of these crimes that private detective Tatyana Ivanova is about to investigate—way of killing and weapon—is an old Spanish stiletto…