To the 120th anniversary of Faina Ranevskaya. It is true what they say that talented people are talented in everything. So Ranevskaya was not only a great actress and the author of many famous witticisms, aphorisms and anecdotes, but, it turns out, she also wrote wonderful prose and illustrated it herself. This novel is her first experience in the comedy detective genre, which has been waiting for publication for more than half a century. In the midst of the Crimean tour of the famous theater, its prima, the main star of the USSR Lyubov Pavlinova, disappears without a trace (a clear allusion to Lyubov Orlova, with whom Ranevskaya had a difficult relationship). What is this - an accident or premeditated murder? Who pushed the star overboard? And isn’t there, God forbid, “politics” here?! After all, Pavlinova is the favorite of the Leader, who was going to personally attend her benefit performance! If the entire troupe is under suspicion, when both the police and state security are powerless, the most “obnoxious” and mocking theater actress takes over the investigation, who is always kept “in the roles of old women” for her sharp tongue "and in which it is easy to recognize Ranevskaya herself. Read her brilliant, caustic and homerically funny "theatrical detective" in the best traditions of Bulgakov's "Theatrical Novel" and "12 Chairs" by Ilf and Petrov!