Stabbed with a Chinese Umbrella

For friendship, you can do anything—so Nadya Lebedeva ended up digging through a trash pile to help her friend, a painter named Igor. But those “diggings” led to a precious find: among the wreckage of old junk that belonged to a woman recently murdered, Nadya found a postcard depicting a porcelain Chinese doll. In fact, there are six such dolls, and according to legend they each keep a secret. Now these little dolls are being hunted by some strange type resembling a huge bat. And meanwhile, right after Nadya Lebedeva herself started being hunted by a secret government organization whose agents can’t believe that an ordinary housewife could so professionally confuse the trail and evade pursuit…