Humble Sacrifice

Colonels of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Gurov and Kriyachko are heading to a small Volga town to share their experience at a seminar for investigators. However, the plans for the business trip changed on the very first day. The guests from the capital are forced to get involved in the investigation of a recently committed murder. The victim was a quiet and modest museum employee, art historian Margarita Svalova. But, as it turned out, she had a hidden inclination towards a bohemian lifestyle. This circumstance intrigued Gurov. The details of Margarita's hidden life later allowed the Moscow operatives to properly assess the strange incident that occurred shortly after the first murder…