The darling of fate and the favorite of women, Pavel Klishin always loved risky games. But you cannot play with death with impunity. Klishin wrote a detective story... about his own murder. And soon the author was found dead - killed exactly as described in the novel. And after death, Klishin continues his games: the police receive chapters from the novel by mail, and in each case a different person becomes the criminal. Leonidov, a former investigator and now a commercial director, is shocked: in the first chapter he is declared the murderer. In addition, the honor of his wife is hurt. Leonidov is trying to collect the text in its entirety and find out whether Klishin’s own death was part of his plans?