In search of his missing wife, Thomas Senlin managed to be an actor, adventurer, port captain and pirate, and now he is a spy for the Sphinx itself. Senlin goes to the domain of Pelphius with the task of finding out who in this monastery of revelers and fashionistas is conducting activities carefully hidden from the mechanical eyes and ears of the owner of the Tower of Babel. But the investigation is disrupted by an accidental murder and an unexpected reunion. Senlin's life and freedom are again in danger, his old and new friends are in the thick of rapid and menacing events, and clouds are gathering over the estate, the tower and the whole world. For the first time in Russian!