Cold Blade

Mid-seventies. An elderly woman is strangled in the stairwell of an apartment building. A lonely drunkard, she had no enemies, so the police hastened to close the case as futile. A month later, a brutally murdered man with multiple stab wounds is found in the basement. Soon after, another woman is found stabbed to death in her apartment. The investigation is assigned to Captain of the MUR Ilya Baryshnikov. The methods of the last two murders are similar: military buckle prints are found on the victims' bodies, and the wounds are caused by a blade resembling a naval dagger. But on what principle were the victims chosen? Captain Baryshnikov begins to study the biographies of the deceased, not yet knowing what shock awaits him…