Bold Hopes of Karabas-Barabas

Ilya Pavlovich can't find peace — he has a teenage daughter now. And now Podushkin needs to dress, shod, and entertain the girl. The detective's worries have increased. But Sasha turned out not to be a burden, but an excellent... assistant, as they unraveled yet another complex case together.
Angelica Zubova came to his detective agency office. The girl asks to find her brother Robert. Supposedly he killed their father when Angelica was still little. Robert was convicted, served his sentence, was released, and disappeared. Zubova told that the relatives voiced different versions of what happened, and now she wants to figure everything out herself. Podushkin takes on the case and realizes that he understands nothing. According to one source, it turns out that Robert is alive, according to another — that he is dead. There is a grave, but there is no one in it! His head is spinning. And still, Ilya Pavlovich found Robert. Found him where no one would even dream of in their worst nightmare.

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