The Secret of the Old Newspaper

In different countries and different eras—like time and space above it had no power over it—a mysterious gray-haired old man appeared, offering anyone who wished to play dice with him. The secret of his identity was shrouded in darkness: some saw in him a scholar-alchemist, others believed he was a sorcerer and accused him of communicating with the devil. Whatever the case, anyone who accepted his offer became a witness to a chain of strange, inexplicable events…

In modern Saint Petersburg, an amateur detective, Nadezhda Lebedeva, comes across a stack of old Soviet newspapers—and, strangely enough, the incidents described on their pages begin to repeat themselves in the present. Being a sensible person who doesn’t believe in mystical coincidences, Nadezhda wants to understand what’s happening. And her search for the truth leads her to the ill-fated dice…