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Post-war Kazan. In a park area, the body of a man with a slit throat has been discovered. Additionally, a finger has been cut off the body: it seems that the criminal used this method to obtain the murdered man's wedding ring. Forensic examination established that the killer used a medical scalpel. Is he possibly a hospital employee? Police Major Vitaly Shchelkunov finds out that the deceased, vocational school teacher Konstantin Polyakov, was friends with surgeon Goryunov, who was found with the very gold ring during a search. The criminal is exposed… However, the major is not in a hurry to close the case. His attention is drawn to the wife of the deceased Polyakov, who, it seems, was not at all saddened by the heavy loss…