"Petersburg noir". Fourteen stories. “Fourteen Shades of Black,” as the book’s preface calls its color scheme. Let the reader not be intimidated by this color scheme. Or, on the contrary, it’s scary. However, the names of the authors who mixed the colors on the palette of “Petersburg Noir” already exclude grounds for complaints about the monochrome nature of the book, just as they do not give a reason to pass by it indifferently. Sergey Nosov, Pavel Krusanov, Andrey Kivinov, Andrey Rubanov, Lena Eltang, Anton Chizh... Both listed and hidden by ellipses, these names are well known and constitute, if not the glory, then at least the pride of modern literature.