The Testament of the Old Thief

At the end of the war, in his Moscow apartment, lawyer Gleb Serebryakov is brutally murdered. The apartment has been robbed. Investigator of the MUR (Moscow Criminal Investigation Department) Yefim Berezhnoy is sure the attackers were looking for something specific: traces of torture remain on the lawyer’s body. The bandits left their “business cards” at the crime scene—two deck aces. Exactly those same marks were left by a particularly dangerous gang that robbed and killed people even before the war.

Berezhnoy opens old cases and finds that during the detention of those pre-war raiders, part of the precious valuables used by detectives as bait disappeared without a trace—and that Serebryakov played no small role in that matter. What if the lawyer’s death is an echo of that dark and tangled story?