Arthur Conan Doyle’s heroes — Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson — are known to everyone without exaggeration. But do you know that Soviet literature also had its own “Holmes” and “Watson”? Detective Nil Platonovich Kruchinin and his faithful friend and pupil Suren Grachek work together, unraveling the most mysterious detective stories. The heroes of Nikolai Shpanov’s novel series were so popular that even Yulian Semyonov advised his friends: “Learn from Shpanov.”
You have in your hands the most famous novel about “the wizard of Soviet detection” — Nil Platonovich Kruchinin. Again, the enemies of the world on Earth issue a cunning challenge. But Kruchinin and his loyal comrade and pupil Suren Grachek step onto the path of the last fascists and their new masters without fear or hesitation. Half a century ago, the whole country was reading this book.