...In the apartment of Vera Arkadyevna Kaveshnikova, the leading actress of the local drama theater, and her husband, Sergei Pavlovich, a cardiologist, friends gathered - an artist, a theater critic, university teachers, the head of the literary department of the drama theater and a private investigator. The friends spent the evening and part of the night quite peacefully, until the corpse of one of the guests was accidentally discovered. It seems that no one left the Kaveshnikovs’ apartment, no one came... It seems that decent, intelligent people had gathered... Which one of them is the murderer and, most importantly, why did he (or she?) kill? You will find the answer to this question only after finishing reading Irina Levit’s first detective story, “The Curtain, Gentlemen!” Why is the president of the famous and successful company “Consib” carefully hidden from any contact with the press? And if these contacts do happen, then journalists are always left with the question: “How could this vague, withdrawn and strange person create such a successful brainchild?” Why is the second of August a significant day for a simple engineer Oleg Sovkov? And where is the limit of the patience of an ordinary “little man”, the very limit after which all the demons of vengeance stored and carefully hidden in the soul suddenly break out? And having escaped... However, it is better for you to learn about this from the primary source - detective Irina Levit “One day he was lucky...”