This story began on a summer day in 196... In the lobby of the editorial building, journalist Akhmetyev, nicknamed “master,” utters a vague phrase: “Four have already been killed!” There is a mysterious connection between the four murdered people and the strange porcelain items that the almighty K.V. gives to his employees... It was just such a porcelain product that was presented on the eve of the events described to the beautiful-hearted and romanticized hero of our novel... We are publishing a new novel by the recognized master of surrealism Vladimir Orlov, “The Jack of Diamonds.”