Дебютная постановка. Том 1

An astonishing story about how, in the distant Soviet years, the famous singer, a favorite of Brezhnev himself, was murdered, and what the investigators had to go through to keep their positions. The year is 1966. As a stand for... the murder weapon, the killer chose a black, lacquered piano cover. He arranged thirteen saucers on it, and already on them – burning candles. He carefully inspected the couch on which the corpse lay, removing the emptied boxes of sleeping pills from the table. There remained the final touch, the cherry on top… The killer carefully placed a photograph of a woman and a strip of paper with a short phrase written in block letters on the singer's chest. Half a century later, this case fascinated a young journalist, Pyotr Kravchenko. The legendary Anastasia Kamenetskaya, a retired operative, helps him establish contacts with people involved in those bygone events and capable of revealing the dark secrets of the past…