Ivan Ivanovich Lyenbenko is a modern writer of detective novels who combines the work of a lawyer with writing. The plots of his works are complex, but very believable—and keep the reader’s interest until the very end.
If you love adventures, uncovering secrets, and the history of the Russian state, listen to an exciting detective story about a harsh curse weighing on the ancient Ignatyevs family. You will learn what happened to a wagon train that transported Persian tribute under a peace treaty. In one of the chests upon arrival, instead of gold, they found stones—after which a famous detective, Ivan Avdeyevich Samovarov, arrived from St. Petersburg to Stavropol to investigate… And after eighty years, the descendants of the former suspects begin dying one after another, and the missing-gold story once again appears on the horizon.
The case is taken up by a lawyer who has already become a Stavropol celebrity—Klim Panteleyevich Ardashev. He must uncover the mystery of Colonel Ignatyev’s death and that of his daughter, and also find that same gold that vanished almost a hundred years ago!