In a suburban forest park, schoolchildren find the body of a man. The victim was wearing a cloak with a cross. A bloody wound gaped in his chest, and a suede glove lay nearby. What is it—duel of the 21st century? And who on earth thought of playing Musketeers?
Private detective Tatyana Ivanova, who begins investigating, believes there can be no duel of any kind. After all, the man wasn’t stabbed with a rapier. He was pierced with ordinary iron reinforcement. An original murder weapon and no less original staging… Now the only thing left is to find the killer. Who is he—someone romantic, a fan of Alexandre Dumas, or a person far from romance, for whom death and life are the same thing…