This collection includes works in the detective genre that examine significant aspects of the life of Czechoslovak society. The story of the Czech prose writer V. Steklach “How to Kill the Golden Nightingale” gives a moral and psychological analysis of negative phenomena in the artistic environment; in “The Chosen Society,” the Slovak author P. Andruska talks about a socially dangerous type of people who strive to live “for their own pleasure” at any cost; The heroine of "Predictions of the Past" by the Czech writer E. Kachirkova, living according to the selfish norms of the past, goes through a non-accidental path from bestial greed to bloody crime.