This story began as a romance, but very quickly it turned into crime. How else could it be, if its main heroine is a private detective Tatyana Ivanova? She didn’t even have time to begin a pleasant acquaintance with Sergey, who came to the city for a poetry seminar, when he became her client. It turns out that at the hotel where the writers were staying, something happened: the organizer of the seminar, Alex Vysotin, was found dead in his room. According to the police, the poet committed suicide, but Sergey is sure that Alex had no reason to pull a loop of an electrical cord around his neck.
Diving headfirst into the writers’ circle, Tatyana takes note of many people around the poet—jealous ones, competitors, ill-wishers. And when it turns out that Vysotin has an adult son from his first marriage, the list of suspects becomes even longer… the heir of a wealthy poet…