In this collection you will meet Alexei Lykov both as a volunteer enlistee and as a civil servant.
“An удар в сердце” (“A Blow to the Heart”) (novella) — A. Lykov at the Turkish war (1877)
“Little One Walked Down the Street” — a story from the life of the Nizhny Novgorod police. The case of the murder of a grain industrialist (1880)
“The Case of the Man Without a Nose” — an investigation of brutal murders in Moscow (1895)
“O.B.P.” — the case of counterfeit money (1899)
“Vareshkin” — about a terrorist maniac (1906)
“The Swedish Coat” — a sketch against the backdrop of Rasputin’s corpse (1916)