Reading drama is a special type of literary art that requires maximum skill from the author. Oleg Agranyants coped with the task of writing such works very successfully: his book “All Women are a Little Aphrodite” consists of four plays that harmoniously combine the severity of the plot, the intensity of intrigue and philosophical reflections. The author's original genre of "stupidity in two acts" is the play "Water and the Skeleton", its characters are drawn into a series of intrigues from which it is not so easy to extricate themselves. The lightly humorous premise of the play “All Women are a Little Aphrodite” is intriguing and amusing at the same time: how does a young guy Boris end up naked on the street and why does the Minister of Culture suddenly need him? The next two plays in the book are action-packed detective stories. Everyday gatherings of the characters in a cafe are interrupted by the invasion of terrorists in the play “Another Dot Above the I”, and the action of the play “Hotel Hermes” takes place in the hotel of the same name in one of the African countries, where a certain Rostislav Romanovich Rzhavtsev is vacationing - a cunning and calculating man, suspected of stealing a car. his comrade. The book will interest lovers of intrigue and action-packed detective stories.