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A man approached the police station claiming that his wife had been murdered. The day before, the couple sold their apartment, and today - neither the wife nor the money, only a note in which the woman states that she... can no longer live with a drunkard... However, witnesses claim that they saw her that very day, healthy and beautiful, buying tickets at the station and getting on a train. The notary who handled the apartment deal also confirmed that the wife is alive. What really happened? Colonel Lev Gurov of the Ministry of Internal Affairs realizes that such an original criminal scenario is a first in his practice, and therefore the operative will have to act unconventionally...

Nikolai Leonov, a former investigator of MUR, knew firsthand how the most convoluted criminal cases are solved. The classic series 'Black Cat' includes more than 200 books, released in print runs of tens of millions of copies.