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.

The not very successful violinist Chestmir went to celebrate his name day with the popular singer Zuzana Cernaya. He was overcome by sad thoughts that he was already thirty, but life seemed to have failed. But everything turned out even worse, because what awaited him ahead was not a friendly party, but the corpse of his ex-girlfriend with a knife in his chest.