Source: When fifth-grader Ulyana Karavaeva went in search of her father, a scientist-inventor who went missing at the Kolyuchaya mine, she She didn’t yet know that she would have to fly in a hot air balloon, flee from policemen and bandits, steal piglets and fight the most dangerous criminal ever put on the wanted list - the Crooked Beast. Contents: Use the arrow to expand or collapse this sectionPreface 5 Cash register robbery 7 Stepan Muravyov 21 Stop the thief with the pies! 35The criminals have been identified 50The phase has arrived 60The pumpkins will not be lost! 67Escape from Mokrukhino 80Khryapa’s Circus 90Moledog 106The cadet is unlucky again 120Saving the Tomato 133Robbers, they are nobler! 154Beware of the balls! 169Riding on goats 184Not cockroaches! 201Who's there? 209The Deadly Mine 215Afterword 234Last Afterword 236