Debut Performance. Volume 1

An astounding story about how, in the distant Soviet years, a famous singer, the favorite of Brezhnev himself, was murdered, and what the investigators had to do to keep their jobs. 1966. As a stand, the killer chose a black,... shimmering with aspid lacquer lid of a grand piano. He arranged thirteen saucers on it, and on them – burning candles. He carefully examined the chaise longue, on which the corpse lay, and removed the empty boxes of sleeping pills from the table. Only the final touch remained, the cherry on top… The killer carefully placed a photograph of a woman and a strip of paper with a short phrase, written in block letters, on the singer's chest. Half a century later, this case captivated young journalist Pyotr Kravchenko. The legendary Anastasia Kamenskaya, a retired operative, helps him establish contacts with people involved in those long-ago events and capable of revealing the dark secrets of the past…