A Detective Without a Murder. Very Strange Cases and No Less Strange Ways to Solve Them

Have you seen a real private detective? Or maybe he has been watching you for a long time? Meet VADIM GOLOVIN - a real detective. He hides his face but happily tells stories in his author podcast "Noir in the Big City", and now also on the pages of this book. You have before you a collection of short stories with an unusual twist. Throughout the book, the detective investigates tangled and trivial, sometimes sad and sometimes absurd cases, while pondering the strange craft of a private detective. It turns out that the distinctive feature of this profession is unpredictability: if one case resembles a thriller, another can easily turn into a farce. ANCAREFREE BACHELOR SEARCHING FOR A SON HE HAS ONLY SEEN IN A DREAM. A GIRL WHO SUPPOSEDLY READS MINDS AND STRIVES TO BECOME A DETECTIVE’S ASSISTANT. A YOUNG MAN WHO LOST HIS SOUL IN CARDS AND A BELOVED ENCHANTED BY PSYCHICS. Different people come to the detective's office seeking solutions to their problems, and these problems only initially resemble puzzles. The main mystery hidden behind each situation ultimately becomes human nature, the motives, and actions of people. This is an intriguing book about the small secrets of a big city that a resourceful and attentive detective tries to unravel. Well-written, light, and cynical, the book will captivate you from the very first pages. The author is close to Pelevin's esotericism - reflections on the meaning of the Universe are carefully woven into the short detective stories of former crime reporter and now novice detective Vadim Golovin. The particularly intriguing fact is that the described events partially or fully who knows! actually happened.