How many forks and knives does a person need? A set of twelve is perfectly enough. That’s exactly what Yevlampiya Romanova thought—until the day the girl Kisa went to study at the Institute of Good Manners for young noblewomen. Now Lampe has to buy lefles for eating eggs, gabels for cake, and a whole bunch of other utensils.
And at work, Lampe also has troubles. Jane Kabanova contacted Max’s agency. The potential client announced right at the start that she can’t pay for the investigation because she can barely survive on a meager pension. Her exhausted look and rumpled clothes confirmed it.
Kabanova told the investigators about her missing son, Seryozha, who disappeared about twenty years ago. And recently, Jane saw on television an interview with businessman Sergey Reshetnkin—and recognized in him her son by the missing little finger on his left hand.
Kabanova asks the detectives to find Reshetnkin and prove that she is his mother. Max and Lampe agree to help the unfortunate woman for free, not suspecting that Jane is actually a very wealthy lady—the owner of a country estate and several apartments in Moscow.
Well, those surprises were only beginning… But Lampe never gives up and doesn’t get surprised—even when she sees a notice in the entrance: “The elevator is disabled during the repair of the staircase.”