It was truly a “crooked little house” - a cottage that had grown to the point of complete indecency, inhabited by a large noisy family. In such a house only cheerful chaos could happen. But one day, murders began to be committed there... Murders that did not fit into any of the logical schemes of the police investigation. For the principles by which the mysterious criminal operates are incredible, and the “selection” of victims is implausible. Perhaps the mystery of the “crooked house,” which even experienced investigators cannot solve, can only be solved by a naive young Englishman who accidentally found himself in the very center of events...