The action of the detective story “Educated Assumptions” takes place in a small provincial town. The body of an unknown woman is found in a vacant lot, and the investigation writes off the incident as an accident, but the former investigator, and now a pensioner, Timofey Savelyevich decides to set about establishing the truth, as well as finding out the name of the victim, who is about to be buried in an unmarked grave. In the detective story “The Answer Is Out There,” a young woman with two children comes to a sanatorium to improve her health, but somewhere nearby a mysterious killer is constantly wandering around and interfering with her plans.