Bartender Eric privately called this sophisticated, intelligent middle-aged woman Madame Autumn. He was quite surprised when she agreed to a stranger’s proposal to go to his hotel. And a day later, his corpse was found in the room - the man was stabbed to death with scissors... As it turned out, this method of murder appeared in a recently published novel by the famous detective author Kirill Sungur. What is this, a coincidence or a pattern? Amateur detective Oleg Monakhov, who became interested in this case, found out that not everything is smooth in the writer’s life - his young beautiful wife is openly cheating on him, and his son despises his father. And, as it turned out, this is not the first crime in the city that repeats the plot of Sungur’s book...