Snakes and Ladders

Sometimes, to uncover a complicated case, all you need is the most ordinary… cat. And if the cat isn’t ordinary, the chances of solving the case increase many times. This is what detective Boris Veresen proves for himself—unexpectedly, he becomes the owner of a Petersburg sphinx named Mandarin. And the murder he and the cat will have to investigate will turn out to be only the final link in a chain of other crimes, the threads of which lead back into the past. And this chain starts moving because of a single small pebble shifted at just the right moment by a cat’s paw…