The Last Train

April 1950. Moscow Region. Bodies are found on the railway embankment with horrifying regularity — one after another. The main theory is — they are all passengers, and death caught up with them on the trains.

SIX VICTIMS IN A MONTH.

Investigator Arkady Nikitin discovers only long-distance tickets with torn dates in the pockets of the victims. But what if the tickets — are not a route, but...

A FALSE TRAIL.

Nikitin's assistant, Lieutenant Orlov, is convinced: the criminal is among the conductors. Nikitin disagrees — he feels that the murderer is closer than it seems, that he rides ordinary evening suburban trains, breathes the same air of the stations, knows every stop between Serpukhov and Moscow. And, most terrifyingly —

HE HAS NOT FINISHED YET.

Suspicion falls on the conductor Anna, who clearly has feelings for Nikitin. The jealous wife of the investigator, Varya, pays a single visit — and the woman disappears. While the investigators search and argue, the murderer again looks at the rain-slicked platform, searching for a new companion, for whom the next stop may become

THE LAST.

And the main question is no longer «who is the murderer?», but…

HOW TO STOP A TRAIN THAT IS RUSHING TO HELL?