The action-packed novels included in the collection “Spring Detective Collection” are united by the fact that the action in them develops on bright spring days. The events of Tatyana Ustinova’s novel “The Phantom House as a Dowry” begin in an old mansion on Chistye Prudy, which for some time has not been listed in any documents. On a Saturday morning in March, the corpse of a neighbor collapsed on the girlfriends who lived in the ghost house, Lipa and Lucinda. “There is a man here who is planning a murder!” – the fortuneteller Esmeralda said in an afterlife voice. And an hour later, my friend Sonya and I came across her corpse.” This is how Tatyana Polyakova’s novel “4 Lovers and a Girlfriend” begins intriguingly. Tatyana, a cardiologist at a city hospital, the main character of Evgenia Gorskaya’s novel “White Bride, Black Widow,” is accustomed to her loneliness, to a measured and monotonous life. She had no intention of changing anything and did not pay any attention to her neighbor Stepan until she became involved in mysterious incidents with him.