December 1901 The famous detective of the St. Petersburg police Rodion Vanzarov resigns. But even here he has no peace! He becomes the first private detective in Russia - as brilliant as in the government service. And now he receives an order... not to investigate a crime, but to prevent it. Vanzarov's sophisticated mind collides with the no less sophisticated mind of a man who conceived and staged the future crime as a theatrical production, and at the end of it Vanzarov is destined for a reward: a black-eyed beauty. But Rodion doesn’t know this yet... In his new novel “Prospero’s Labyrinth,” the writer Anton Chizh, for the first time in the history of the world detective story, brings into the arena three competing private detectives at once. How will their fight end? This has never happened before...