Arcady Vozdvizhensky—Arkady’s fortune’s darling—found detective stories easy to write: moderately tangled and dark, with an elegantly sad ending. But in the life of the writer—the king and god of the detective genre—nothing like that had ever happened. And then—here you go, out of nowhere! And all according to the criminal-reading classics: with threats and murder. The faithful secretary Masha Veprentsova also gets pulled into the whirlwind of events, and her children, if they disobey, face brutal retribution. All she has to do is refuse her boss’s “tour” trip to Kyiv. But how can she not go? The visit program included a meeting between the writer and the candidate for the presidency of Ukraine, Boris Golovko. Of course, Masha and Vozdvizhensky disobeyed the villains. Only it ended very sadly. They never got the chance to meet Boris Golovko at the dacha of a local poetess, where well-known guests had gathered—he was brutally murdered. Twenty-seven stab wounds! His torn body was found… in Masha’s room…