In the documentary essays of this collection, readers can get acquainted with the most notorious crimes uncovered by Voronezh police officers in the 60-90s of the last century and in the early 2000s of this century. Here you will also get acquainted with real, not fictitious people who took a direct part in exposing big thieves, swindlers, serial robbers, robbers, maniacs and murderers, monitored them and prepared cunning operations to detain them. Among the high-profile crimes presented in the essays: the sensational theft from the apartment of the great violinist of the 20th century David Oistrakh, which served as the occasion for the Weiner brothers to write a novel, a series of daring robberies and incredibly brutal murders that were committed by members of the Sailor gang - the most scandalous in the entire history of the existence of law enforcement agencies of the Central Black Earth Region, as well as other very significant crimes that caused great public outcry.