Dead Alive

In the center of Moscow, the body of a woman wrapped in plastic was discovered in the wall of one of the offices. At first glance, the crime seems to be less than a day old. However, the socialite Elena... Samoyta, whose body was extracted from the wall, was murdered several years ago. The case had long been closed, and the guilty party — the murdered woman's husband — is serving time in prison. How could this be? To the detectives' surprise, it turned out that Elena did not die back then; she worked in Moscow in plain sight and had recently opened a chain of travel companies. Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Lev Gurov realizes that there is some criminal substitution behind all of this. He decides to re-examine the materials of the old case and soon comes across the main witness of this mysterious story...

Nikolai Leonov, a former investigator of the MUR, was well-acquainted with how the most intricate criminal cases are solved. Therefore, each of his books is a true captivating story with an unpredictable intrigue and unexpected ending. The main character of these books is Colonel Lev Gurov, a top-class detective, as well as a person with many positive human qualities. He is respected by friends, feared by enemies, and loved by women. He is a true domestic superhero. The novels about Lev Gurov have been attracting fans of domestic detective fiction for forty years. The classic series "Black Cat" consists of over 200 books, with print runs in the tens of millions of copies.