Here’s a book containing an outright dozen detective stories. In each of them there’s a riddle that isn’t so easy to solve. The criminals are, of course, cunning and cruel, while the investigators are clever, capable, and energetic. Together with the main characters, you will unravel a crime in a museum of theatrical costumes, solve the murder of a famous photographer, find a clever hiding place where treasures are kept, and outwit—around the finger— a well-known thief nicknamed Fakir. You’ll even meet detective Savely Vasyin for the first time. As his wise mentor, a former prosecutor’s investigator, says—Savely has an undeniably great future…