How can I, Yevlampiya Romanova, stay indifferent when my friend is ill? It’s awful: Volodya Kostin is apparently missing a stomach! That diagnosis was made at a private clinic. I intend to deal with these doctors! And besides—where did the medallion of the deceased Zoya Kron come from on the head of the department? I was wrong to think she was insane when she told the unusual story of her daughter’s sudden death and the letter… from the other world. The mad ones are those who planned this terrible fraud. But they aren’t crazy— they’re criminals!