The legendary detective tandem of Leonov — Makeev.
Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Lev Gurov is tasked with bringing up the records of a long-ago, eleven-year-old murder. In a settlement near Moscow, a young Ksenia was killed. Right away, local residents named to the investigators the man they believed to be guilty, but for some unclear reason the operatives did not attach any significance to those words. In the end, Vasily Skachkov ended up in prison—he voluntarily took the blame for someone else’s crime. After being released, Skachkov tells Gurov: he didn’t kill. But who, then, actually reached for the knife? The truth slips away for a long time until witnesses are finally found—people who saw the crime with their own eyes…
Nikolay Leonov, a former MUR investigator, knew well how to unravel the most complex cases; therefore, his novels are reliable, dynamic stories with a tense intrigue and an unexpected resolution. The main hero of the series is Colonel Lev Gurov—a top-class detective and a man of firm principles. He is respected by friends, feared by opponents, and leaves women not indifferent. For forty years, books about Gurov have held the attention of lovers of Russian detective fiction. The classic “Black Cat” series brings together more than 200 novels, published in a total circulation of tens of millions of copies.