In the town of Tatayare there are many places to have fun, including clubs and a unique wax figure salon created by the merchant Ivan Pyadnikov. Local residents considered the project strange. One morning, they discover Pyadnikov’s body in the salon. Although the death from a heart attack doesn’t seem suspicious, the doctor noticed something odd. Colonel von Spinne initially doesn’t pay attention to the doctor’s words, but later becomes interested. Why was the merchant in the salon at night? Was there really a ghost there? And is the new death connected to it? Foma Fomich takes on a new investigation.