Long-Distance Hearse

On the train where Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Gurov was returning from a business trip, passenger Oleg Dymov caused a drunken uproar. Gurov had to intervene and restore order. The conductor explained that this behavior was caused... by the grief that had befallen the passenger: a coffin with the body of his deceased wife was being transported in the same train. The next morning, it was discovered that Dymov had disappeared, and there were signs of a struggle and blood in his compartment. Realizing that a crime had occurred on the train, Gurov contacted the police department at one of the stations along the route. This saved him from certain death: at the moment he was speaking with the duty officer in the carriage where Gurov was traveling, an explosion occurred… Nikolai Leonov, a former investigator of the MUR, was well aware of how the most convoluted criminal cases are solved. The now-classic series "Black Cat" includes over 200 books, with a circulation of tens of millions of copies.