Incident in Semipalatinsk

In Semipalatinsk, the police chief has been killed. The crime was solved on the hot trail, and the murderer was shot during the arrest. The case was filed away in the archives. However, military intelligence officer Nikolai Lykov-Nefedyev suspects that... a decoy was set up for the investigation. In reality, the police chief was eliminated by agents of the British residency, whom he had tightly pressed. And they pinned it on local criminals... Nikolai reported his suspicions to Petersburg. He proposed to open a new investigation secretly from the local authorities. Following his proposal, a special assignment official from the Department of Police, Collegiate Councillor Lykov, arrived in the city. Father and son together hunt for the real killers in quiet Semipalatinsk. Meanwhile, the resident is preparing another operation. Its victim is to be Ensign Lykov-Nefedyev…