The death of the famous writer Alan Conway put an end to Susan Ryland's editorial career. Now she runs a hotel on the shores of the Aegean Sea, but not very successfully - there is a catastrophic lack of money. Missing the bustle of London, Susan is thinking about escaping this paradise, and it seems that fate itself is giving her a chance. The English couple turn to Ryland for help, promising to pay well. Their daughter disappeared, having managed to confess to her parents that on the pages of Conway’s detective novel she had found the key to solving a bloody crime committed eight years ago in Suffolk... The editor of this book series, it turns out, was Susan. Will she be able to unravel the intricacies of the author's thoughts? Miss Ryland urgently goes to England, experiencing the real excitement of a detective, and it does not immediately occur to her that she cannot stir up the secrets of the past with impunity. But this becomes obvious when mortal danger looms over her... A novel within a novel, a literary game full of riddles and hoaxes. For the first time in Russian!