Labyrinth of the Chimaera

Retired detective of the St. Petersburg police Rodion Vanzarov was asked to return to service – the case is so complex that only he can handle it. And on the very first day of the investigation, Vanzarov... kills the crime victim! Or was the victim already dead before?.. The police of the city of Pavlovsk, where a dead-alive girl roamed the streets, could not answer this question. The great criminologist Lebedev could not unravel the mystery either: something important kept slipping out of sight. And this continued until Vanzarov heeded the warning of a mysterious bibliographer named Tropp…