The Literary Club of the Alexander Greene Library is famous for its active literary and social life: vibrant presentations, meetings with outstanding creative personalities, heated discussions, and lovely friendly gatherings. At one of these evenings, a murder occurs. The personality of the deceased, a troublemaker and brawler, does not evoke much sympathy from the close club circle, but what an indelible stain on the impeccable reputation of the library! Tanya Nesterova, Bella Mironova’s colleague, friend and deputy director, understands that the police cannot cope with the solution: the killer is not a random guest “from the outside,” but someone from the inner circle, and the reason for the murder lies in the depths of a tangled tangle of secret love affairs, hatred, betrayal and wounded pride.