The sixteenth issue of the annual “Duel” opens with Valery Agranovsky’s story “Profession: Foreigner” about the Soviet intelligence officer G.-T. Longsdale. In Anatoly Stepanov’s action-packed story “Footballer,” we are talking about businessmen who turn sports into a means of enrichment, depriving millions of true fans of the pleasure of wrestling. Yuri Mitin's material about Conan Doyle organically interweaves a story about the emergence of criminology as a science; the author dwells on some old cases that are a milestone in the development of one of the areas of criminology - fingerprinting, toxicology, and forensic medicine. “The Duel Anthology” offers readers two works written by Boris Savinkov: the story “The Black Horse” and the story “In Prison.” The “Foreign Detective” section is represented by “Two Tales” by Dashiell Hammett.