The heroine of the novel “Romance of the Century”, by force of circumstances, finds herself drawn into a major scam. The intricacies of the plot and the unusual love story, intertwined with the detective story, keep the reader in suspense, and the heroine of the novel, Ioanna, the author’s “I” of the writer, never loses her sense of humor, as well as self-irony, no matter what difficult situations she finds herself in.