It seemed that nothing around her foreshadowed the future tragedy, but it was about to take place within the walls of this house. The garden was quiet and cool. The violets and daffodils were fragrant. But the monstrous shadow of crime hung over everything in existence like an invisible and gloomy cloud. Crimes of the unusual, the strange... Everything is intertwined in him - love and hatred, generosity and greed, human courage and human cruelty. No wonder the judges would later call this high-profile trial the crime of the century...