Of course, Nadezhda Lebedeva knew and loved Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, but meanwhile she was pretty irritated by the police captain with the literary surname Belkin, who quoted the great poet right and left. And the town of Pushkinskie Gory itself evoked thoughts of a “scientist cat” and a “mermaid on the branches” - it was here that Nadezhda was going to relax in a sanatorium and it was here that the brutal murder took place. Lebedeva's former colleague Sergei Baruzdin died. And on the same day, Sergei’s wife’s beloved cat was killed. And now Nadezhda Lebedeva is not allowed out of the “enchanted Lukomorye” - after all, it was she who was “lucky” to be the first to discover the corpse...