This book is about detectives from different times, detectives from God, often working without any pay, and almost always disgraced. Before the reader’s eyes, their struggle unfolds with the Fleabag Man, a kind of Jack the Ripper of the Siberian “gold washers”, a search for Japanese suicide bombers and saboteurs in the wilds of Manchuria, a raid on the famous Kichik-Mirgafur, a treasure collector in Turkestan in the twenties, and penetration into the secrets of the villages. sorcerers... Eduard Matsipulo's stories are written on reliable material, in a cool to the point of fury, imbued with thoughts about eternal and burning problems.