Detective Nadezhda Lebedeva, as befits the hero of a classic drama, is again at a crossroads. Duty and feeling call her in opposite directions. Duty requires staying at home with your husband and cat, because a husband and especially a cat are sacred to every decent housewife. And the instinct of a detective pushes her to the provincial Kozodoev, where without her, Nadezhda, no one, of course, can cope with half a dozen corpses and the local mayor - a scoundrel and a bribe-taker, whom every investigator is simply obliged to bring to light if he does not want to lose the respect of his own cat...< /p>