End of 1950. Young American Army Colonel Frank Bolton returns from the Korean War having lost his arm. As soon as he finds himself in his hometown, he learns that all his former lovers are dying in terrible agony. If only he could guess who the murderer would be!.. If only he could escape from fate! But there is nowhere to go. Boris Vian came up with a plot in the spirit of Vernon Sullivan, wrote four chapters and did not complete the novel. A hundred years after the writer’s birth, the heirs suggested that the literary association ULIPO (Increasing Literary Potency) write a sequel. The authors of ULIPO agreed and created a new detective story, playing charades with both the author of the idea and the readers. For the first time in Russian, following the French publication, which became a literary sensation in its homeland. 18+　 The book contains obscene language.