Granville. Book 2. Granville. The Black Soul. Granville. New Year

Two hundred years ago, Britain lost the war against Napoleon and, together with the rest of conquered Europe, became part of the French Empire. Only recently, after a long campaign of civil disobedience, the country regained its independence — thus the British Socialist Republic was born. Now London is connected to the continent by the Chunnel railway bridge; a brief train journey — and you're already in Paris, the largest and most dazzling city in the world, also known as Granville ("the great city").

It is along this route that Inspector LeBrock from Scotland Yard sets off, investigating the "impossible" murder in the locked room of the famous artist Gustave Corbeau, or trying to bring back the niece of his landlady, who has fallen into the nets of the totalitarian sect "Silver Path", or searching for the so-called True Gospels — with a truly badger-like persistence. After all, LeBrock is none other than a badger, and the world of "Granville" is predominantly populated by anthropomorphic animals, while humans ("headless ones") serve in the most degrading jobs and are deprived of civil rights…