The novels of the author we offer, writing under the name Joe Alex, compare favorably with the quickly boring works where the main characters are broken American guys who shoot first and think later. In them you will find examples of the classic English detective story, which have absorbed all the best that attracts in this genre: the dynamics of the plot, intellectual combat, dark crimes and their solution. The author and the hero of the novels bear the same name, and this transformation is so deep , which makes the reader identify himself with the character, go with him through all the labyrinths of the investigation, experience the tension of the proximity of the solution and become convinced that this is just another dead end, after which he needs to start all over again. Joe Alex’s novels are not only dynamic and intellectual, like everything written in the style of a classic English detective story, but also very informative. Their action takes place either in the theater, or in an old English castle, or they are connected with the forgotten Cretan-Mycenaean culture, and sometimes the heroes engage in single combat with the devil himself...