From the first minutes of their casual acquaintance, she struck him with her detachment. Not a woman, but a sphinx. And the more she tried to distance herself from him, the more she tied him to herself. And he caught traces and signs of the mystery surrounding her life. “Solve the riddle of this woman with the eyes of Cleopatra, at all costs, at all costs!” - he decided. And I had to set off in pursuit of my beloved, plunge into the depths of the criminal world, and lift the curtain on the past tragedy. But the sphinx is silent. How to make him talk?

The novel was previously published under the title “The Lady Sphinx.”