Many years ago, the former investigator Stepanov committed a breach of office. A kind act, when he out of pity cleared a pregnant accomplice of robbers in the case of rare artifacts stolen from a museum, now “comes back” with disaster. Twenty years those antique hourglasses and a golden case for a prayer book—obtained by him as a “morality compensation” for his trouble—lay hidden in Stepanov’s cache. And then the safe was broken, and the valuables disappeared without a trace…
Private detective Tatyana Ivanova, invited by Stepanov, finds an ad on one of the websites on the Internet: someone is offering to sell an antique case for a prayer book. Who stole the museum exhibits from the cache is what Tatyana Ivanova must find out. And, of course, it would be best to discover the valuables themselves without harming the reputation of the old investigator…