The Trail of the Mechanical Monkey

In Tatayar, along with the good weather, a calm has settled, with no crimes or incidents. But one day, the bored Colonel von Shpinne is approached by the manufacturer Protasov, the first millionaire of Tatayar. According to him, there is something devilish happening in the house: a mechanical toy, a monkey the size of a human, which can walk and talk, supposedly gets out of the closet by itself and wanders around the house. The millionaire fears that sooner or later it will kill someone and asks Foma Fomich to stay with him for a few days...